[FRIAM] Movement vs. Behavior, and what's in the Black Box

[Steven A Smith]

Frank -
> I was just outside sawing up dead branches.  I noticed a large ant
> struggling to carry a piece of vegetation larger than it was over
> obstacles in a general direction which did not change notwithstanding
> the obstacles.  It was very hard not to feel the ant's intentionality
> and determination.  I was experiencing the ant as the ant.  Extreme
> empathy.

Just reading this made my jaws (mandibles) ache (horizontally)!

But I couldn't really image the third pair of appendages (middle for me,
between my hind/forelimbs) helping me struggle.

But I did have a (likely highly mistargeted) olphactory analog of
pheremone trails/fields in that image.  It came through more as a taste
than a smell.

And as the ant, did you have any apprehension of that *huge* mammal
dragging dead branches around and waving a saw?  

- Steve