GEtting back to the issue of living versus non-living systems, and scientific rigor, here is an interesting scientific report that concludes that even fruit-flies cannot have their behaviour accounted for by simple stumulus response; but that they seem to include an "initiator" in their neural system which adds spontaneity.

The report is in this video from researchers at the Free University in Berlin and like all good research opens more question than it answers.

But is germane to the up-thread discussion about scientific analsyis of thought, even if only in fruit-flies.


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