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Old 10-06-2008, 07:24 PM   #3 (permalink)
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This is a really interesting question, kuranes.

Hormonal/Collective sentience has always been an interesting biological question for me. As such, I'd probably try to interact with a community of minds.

Insects - with particular interest paid to ants/bees.
Interesting non-fiction science book on this, written long ago, called "The Soul of the White Ant"

We might even be able to get a good discussion going between bees or termites and an IT expert, who was comparing hierarchical systems and databases to other kinds.
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