Think Like a Fish
By SALVATORE SCIBONA
Published: June 27, 2009
What he can do and I can’t is face a piece of water and so absorb himself in the place that he seems to share the consciousness of the fish in it. If you have seen a school of 10,000 sand eels swerving as one animal under a wharf, you have seen that individuals can integrate their senses into a collective mind.
Without the benefit of language, they share all the most important news: where to find food, light, threat, rocks. Human beings usually experience this common mind only under the stress of love or panic.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/28/op...?_r=2&emc=eta1