But how does an individual bee gauge the need for nectar in the hive? She does not step inside the habitation to check how full the honeycombs are. Incoming transport bees sense the demand for the cargo they deliver by a simple social cue, the kind of cue that humans have their antennae out for at cocktail parties. If a burdened bee arrives at the

I find it endlessly fascinating when I think that every species of animal may see and feel the world in a completely different way, so you could say there are hundreds of thousands of different worlds out there. And many of these worlds are waiting to be discovered, even in the latitudes where I live.

However, Ken Wilber argues that it is the other way around: that the biosphere is actually part of the noosphere. The reasoning here is that in the same way that the biosphere emerged from and includes the geosphere (or “physiosphere”), the noosphere emerged from (and includes) the organizational structure of the biosphere. This evolutionary distin