How astonishing is this web-making by a small creature called Spider!!😯 Has it got the brainpower to architecture the web and the sophisticated skill to implement the architecture? Obviously NO. Then how does it do such an intricate job?
My detailed hypotheses on 'Intelligence' pervading the whole Universe was posted on an earlier occasion on FB . My contention is that all INANIMATE objects have 'hardwired' intelligence which enables them to follow precisely physical/chemical laws of Nature. Humans (and other evolved life forms to a lesser degree) I proposed, have a 'software' intelligence (attributable to human brain) as well which enables them to wilfully do other functions as well, like, for instance, designing and engineering an aeroplane which can challenge natural laws.
The Spider whose complex web-weaving procedure is illustrated below compels me to propose the existence of what we may call 'Firmware' ( in line with the lingo familiar to Computer Scientists) which is an unalterable software program that Nature has embedded in the miniscule-sized rudimentary brain ('ROM' in computer parlance) of such creatures.
Other than Spider we are all familiar with the nest-building procedure of birds which involves many intricate tasks like collecting the raw-materials from surroundings or at times from far-off places, building the nest on tree branches hanging it securely, orienting it in an appropriate way with its entrance at the bottom lest predators get entry etc. etc.
My contention about 'firmware' is reinforced by the fact that unlike humans these sub-human species are never TRAINED in web-weaving/ nest-making etc by their elders or colleagues.
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