27. Resistance Is Futile.




Everything Is Interesting -With Keera & Kira show

Summary: What goes through the mind of a bee? Does it have its own thoughts, or is being part of a hive-minded collective like being a part of the Borg?  Can an organism with swarm intelligence have a private identity, or does the community simply add each individual's biological and technological distinctiveness to its own?<br> <br> Lower your shields. Resistance is futile.<br> <br> On this episode, Keera and Kira examine the decision making process in communities of bees, birds, neurons, and slime mold, and discover what life is like as part of a hive mind.