Wayfarer, nice to meet you. Yes Sheldrake mentioned "habit of nature" in the book.
Thanks, Janus, I'll look into those 2 philosophers you mentioned, I'm getting too busy all of a sudden. Great stuff.

Thanks for mentioning flocking behavior principles. I guess I need more science to actually delve into the possibilities. It seems that principles of alignment, cohesion and separation merely describe outer behavior, not the inner workings of the birds' instincts.

Yes flocks of birds act that way too, all turning at once. There are a lot of examples of unexplained animal behavior. Morphic fields is attempting to figure it out. Sheldrake says that they could do experiments to test it. I don't know yet if they have.

I won't speculate on the behavior of fish driving cars.

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Thanks for mentioning it. I haven't heard of 'holistic consciousness,' I'll look into it.