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Home Q & A Board Biology-Related Homework Help Zoology and Botany (Moderator: ehd123)
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brogine brogine
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8 years ago
A bird is sitting on a branch, flicking its head around looking for predators. How are its specific movements determined? I'd like to think there's a chemical 'algorithm' functioning like a computer's (not-really) random number generator, keeping the results unpredictable, and within the desired range, but then crackpot theories are a hobby of mine.
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8 years ago
Hey there!

Could you please update this topic if you found the answer? Thank you.
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8 years ago
Haven't heard a thing. I've been curious about this since I read Gleick's 'Chaos', Thanks for the interest.
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8 years ago
Are you still there, my solitary friend?

Why should there be such a 'mechanism'? Maybe it would free the user from unhealthful anxiety as well as wasteful cell-level 'indecisiveness'.

How would it work? I'm not a biologist, but I do know I can create convincing 'random' movement on a screen with a couple of dozen bytes, which are far less subtle than neurons.

On the other hand, this might be a lousy mathematician's absurd fantasy.
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8 years ago
Quote from: brogine (8 years ago)
On the other hand, this might be a lousy mathematician's absurd fantasy.

Thanks lol
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