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> > I believe they constantly recalculate a formula


Waldemar, while it may appear that "they" think or calculate, it really has
to boil down to simpler stimuli and responses, as analyzed in Dr Tom
Seeley's body of work (The Wisdom of the Hive, etc).

 In the darkness and crowdedness of a hive, the individual bee can't see
anything, and has various olfactory, tactile,  gustatory,  pheromonal,
vibratory, and auditory cues.

The more that we understand the cues and responses, the more that we can
understand how it appears that a colony "thinks."

Randy Oliver

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