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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tonguez" data-source="post: 8132565" data-attributes="member: 1125">Humans in mobs also demonstrate the same Swarm characteristics as insects, hence the origin of group think and mob violence.Conversely ‘individual behaviour’ does exist in Insects like Ants and Bees.Bee Scouts when they return to the Hive after identifying a food source do different dances effectively ‘debating’ which direction the Hive should Forage in. The Bees then take a vote by headbutting the loser so that they stop dancing at which point the whole colony joins the winners dance.Ants do a similar thing using pheromone trails - the ants who has put the most work into its trail wins.Interestingly Starling swarms form clusters of 6 (each individual just moves with the nearest six birds and thus the whole swarm is coordinated), Locust swarms also form into smaller clusters within a larger swarm mass, with those falling out of a cluster formation having its hindlegs bitten until it falls back in to line.The point being that in intelligent insects, even those with a literal Psychic Hivemind, there is no reason why group concepts like Love, Loyalty and Good and Evil cant develop. Using the cluster formation behaviour even allows for military type Units or even ‘Friends’ or ‘Family Groups’IMC Gnomes are eusocial and a clan is linked by a Empathic bond (Hivemind) via ‘shared notions’. ie All the 101 Gnomes in a clan have a vague notion of what the other Gnomes in the clan want or need and when directed to, all of them will act to meet that need.Acting for the wellbeing of the Burrow is the gnome definition of Love and Good and Loyalty.</blockquote>

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