Passage Two
Does a bee know what is going on in its mind when it navigates its way to distant food sources and back to the hive (蜂房), using polarized sunlight and the tiny magnet it carries as a navigational aid Or is the bee just a machine, unable to do its mathematics and dance its language in any other way To use Donald GrifTm’s term, does a bee have awareness, or to use a phrase I like better, can a bee think and imagine
There is an experiment for this, or at least an observation, make long ago by Karl Von Frisch and more recently confirmed by James Gould at Princeton, Biologists who wish to study such things as bee navigation, language, and behavior in general have to train their bees to fly from the hive to one or another special place. To do this, they begin by placing a source of sugar very close to the hive so that the bees (considered by their trainers to be very dumb beasts) can learn what the game is about. Then, at regular intervals, the
A. The bees are not likely to sting the scientists in the experiment.
B. Bees are unable to navigate 100 feet beyond their hive.
C. Experimenting on bees is too dangerous to be successful.
D. Bees are able to perform limited reasoning tasks.
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