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This is claiming more than I think is really true. They're just training the bees to avoid circles. The more circles, the less sugar water. They're talking abo
by kyleperik 8y ago
This is claiming more than I think is really true. They're just training the bees to avoid circles. The more circles, the less sugar water.
They're talking about zero like some highly advanced concept, probably because it took humans a while to grasp. But like others are saying, they're was always the concept of Nothing or None, and this is only how we interpreted it. Of course many animals can "comprehend" zero, but tell them to represent it and that gets a little different. Might take a while before they group the terms that they think of as 2 or None
- baddox 8y agoYeah, I'm pretty sure humans never really struggled with the idea of Nothing or None. From what I can tell, the "discovery of zero" refers to treating it philosophically as a number, developing a specific symbol for it, and using that symbol in positional number systems, which are all things that bees likely do not do.
- mchahn 8y ago> using that symbol in positional number systems Exactly. There is a book about the number zero which is a good read (as are the ones about pi, e, i, etc.).