Smart Bird

....still tracking the works of Allan Wilson, Professor at University of California at Berkeley. Professor Wilson had established three conditions, which were necessary for a species to improve its abilities...within a given environment:

i) the members of the species must flock and move around in herds, rather than sit individually in isolated territories

ii) some of the individuals must have the potential to invent new behaviours and skills

iii) the species must have an established process for transmitting a skill from the individual to the entire community, through direct communication

Even when I may not suscribe to some of the leads in Arie de Geus's The Living Company , exploring some of his queries with 'brain' ... 'intelligence' in broader 'organization' brought forth when reading his 1999 voice/site in today's context ... (explored his book in 1996 when then media I had access to at the time in Buenos Aires limited this type of 'sharing' quote):

"I’m beginning to see more and more loops that strongly reinforce the idea that there are hierarchically, higher placed living systems, higher than the human being. I called them "A Living Company," because basically I talk about the commercial population of the institutional world population. I talk about commercial tribes, but there are many other tribes. ..."

Would rather not bring forth terms of 'power', 'motor of development of the brain' as observed in the quoted interview ... my understanding ...they may better belong in other realms of exploration, in 'mechanical' type system realms...rather than in relation to 'human learning systems'.

On the other hand, his distinction of 'tribes', so much as his exploration in 'use of the brain' and analogies within some 'institutional population', placing them at 'Neanderthal's' level amazed me ...inspiring me to go learn more ... upon exploring other paths of inquiry as observed from others, to me 'inspiring voices'. Sistemas en Blog.

The smart bird above grabbing toast from my bag while I sat at Asilomar grounds...reminded me of the story I learned upon reading Ari de Geus, about two different flock of birds, different species maybe....I believe the setting was either a UK or US village in the early 1900's , at a time when milkmen brought fresh milk bottles by the day.

Birds from one given species had learned how to open the bottles' lids using their peaks, endulging in free easy to grab food gulps. A specific flock seemed to communicate more and better than others..leading more birds in the flock to learn how to better survive the season.