Re: One celled organisms acting as a swarm?


dterrors@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

I read about the slime mold, which is actually not a mold but a "city"
of one-celled slime mold cells, each can separate and act
independently.
Can someone give me some other examples of this? Of one-celled
lifeforms that act together as a swarm to do interesting/intelligent
things?

JE:-
The clearest example that I know of is provided by the slime molds. They
display mono-centric selection acting at just the individual cell level
(mono-centricity, meaning only ONE level of selection). In this example
the total number of adult (and thus _fertile_) slime mold cells
reproduced per parent per population provides a falsifiable fitness
maximand (a fitness which is always maximized). This refutable and thus
objective fitness measure should be contrasted to popular non
falsifiable, subjective, poly-centric models. Using any of these models,
whenever one level of selection stands falsified yet another level will
remains NON falsified making any theory based these models, non
falsifiable. The gene centric school popularized by Dawkins et al base
their argument on just uncorrected, oversimplified, non falsifiable,
poly-centric mathematical models of Darwinism within which TDF remains
deleted.

Mathematics is not a science simply because it cannot provide a single
frame of reference (as proven by Godel). This critical frame was firstly
introduced into the sciences by Galileo in the mid 1600's. It was and
remains required to critically separate science from mathematics. A
falsifiable frame, is only implicitly provided within Darwinism as Total
Darwinian Fitness (TDF): the total number of strictly fertile forms
reproduced per parent per population. At all times TDF is naturally
selected to be maximized (hence the term "maximand" which was pioneered
by computer programmers).

I recently provided an outline of the slime mold example in my answer to
Lorentz.

Regards,

John Edser




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