[extropy-chat] RE: Re: Intelligent Designand IrriducibleComplexity

[Patrick Wilken]

On 4 Oct 2004, at 16:10, Kevin Freels wrote:

> Another thought on ants: An ant brain has about 250,000 brain cells. A 
> human
> brain has about 10,000 million. So a colony of 40,000 ants has a 
> collective
> brain roughly the size of a human. (Can't remember the source)

You have an interesting form of memory since you appear to remember the 
text word perfect, but not the source:

http://www.lingolex.com/ants.htm
http://www.ideasmerchant.com/
http://barkinspider.diaryland.com/020415_58.html
http://www.pamdemocrat.org/Newspaper/YouthArise.cfm

Unfortunately, some of my students have a similar problem.

best, patrick