{"id":197200,"date":"2022-07-25T18:37:49","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T13:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=197200"},"modified":"2022-07-25T18:37:49","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T13:07:49","slug":"explained-inside-the-minds-of-bees-and-what-we-can-learn-from-their-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-inside-the-minds-of-bees-and-what-we-can-learn-from-their-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Explained: Inside the minds of bees, and what we can learn from their intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source: <\/b>The post is based on the article <\/span>\u201c<\/b>Explained: Inside the minds of bees, and what we can learn from their intelligence<\/b>\u201d <\/b>published in<\/span> Indian Express <\/b>on 25th July 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n

What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n

According to the book \u201c<\/span>The Mind of the Bee\u201d, bees possess not only a remarkable level of cognitive intelligence but also a high degree of \u201cconsciousness\u201d, which makes them think and feel like beings.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is Consciousness?<\/b><\/h5>\n

Consciousness has been understood as a concept different from ordinary brain intelligence (which commonly is known to include the cognitive ability of thinking and reasoning).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Consciousness includes the ability to be \u201csentient\u201d and experience feelings and emotions. It is thought to encapsulate a sophistical level of self-awareness and imagination \u2014 feelings and emotions that allow us to perceive ourselves while simultaneously interacting with the world around us.<\/span><\/p>\n

The nature of animal consciousness is far more difficult to assess as humans are fundamentally unable to understand the minds of animals and live the world through their eyes. However, it is now accepted that animals too possess some form of consciousness.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Previous Studies on Cognitive ability of Honey Bees<\/b><\/h5>\n

According to previous studies,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Honey bees use a kind of \u201cwaggle dance\u201d for communicating with each other.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Bees could learn to solve complex puzzles to access their reward \u2013 sugar. They could also teach other bees to perform the same task, but while incorporating important improvements in the task. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Bees have also been found to be able to form democracies where a subset can communicate their decisions to a group of over 10,000.<\/span><\/p>\n

What does this book say about Honey Bees?<\/b><\/h5>\n

According to the book, Honey Bees have a mind of their own and have distinct personalities. They are even able to distinctly identify the faces of humans.<\/span><\/p>\n

For instance, bees likely felt emotions like fear and anxiety and consequently changed their demeanour when exposed to past locations of trauma and danger \u2013 such as a flower on which they were once attacked by a spider.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article \u201cExplained: Inside the minds of bees, and what we can learn from their intelligence\u201d published in Indian Express on 25th July 2022. What is the News? According to the book \u201cThe Mind of the Bee\u201d, bees possess not only a remarkable level of cognitive intelligence but also… Continue reading Explained: Inside the minds of bees, and what we can learn from their intelligence<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,9],"tags":[10500],"class_list":["post-197200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}