Honeybee democracy by Thomas D. Seeley

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• ProllyInfamous · 2026-08-12 in My favorite nonfiction animal books that make you go holy shit

  I'll add mine: Dr. Seely's Honeybee Democracy, which I read in 2022 (during my first GPT-2 experiences). The book discusses basic bee dances, but then expands much further into Seely's own research discovering how simple rulesets allow for the complexity of the supraorganism (i.e. the hive). The book ends with comparisons between coordinated workerbees as miniature robots, which definitely helped…

• ProllyInfamous · 2026-01-13 in Pain in Crustaceans

  I read Dr. Seeley's Honeybee Democracy in 2021, and then again early 2023 (after using ChatGPT). It was my favorite non-fiction read 2021 (Steinbeck's East of Eden for fiction). The last chapters touch on how simple rulesets can create incredible complexity in the overall supraorganism — it had me thinking of the robots and generative AI that will likely power their micro- & collective- thoughts.…