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Very cool! > “I think sociality, or at least attention to social information, is way more deep-rooted in the evolutionary tree than we might think,” Maybe, or
by bbqfog 2y ago
Very cool!
> “I think sociality, or at least attention to social information, is way more deep-rooted in the evolutionary tree than we might think,”
Maybe, or maybe the neural power required to move all of those limbs is good enough at processing that they developed their own sophisticated behavior.
- mellavora 2y agoWell, given the overwhelming emerging evidence of social attention and behavior in plants, and given that it makes evolutionary sense that "social attention" would provide a fitness advantage in any environment where there are other actors, the only reason to doubt it would be an assumption that "attention to social information" can only happen in creatures with an complex central nervous systems. Which requires rather constrained definitions of "attention", "social", and "information" ok, there is another reason to doubt it. inertia. We've been taught/told that a complex CNS is what makes intelligence, and it is hard to get away from that idea.