Interesting thought. The honeycomb itself is probably generated via fixed angles and edge length. If the bee can build from all angles, it must be rotation invariant. But if the bee only ever builds from a small set of angles, geometric rotation won't be necessary.
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Replying to @Plinz
It is a form of correcting towards the optimum, since bees only make hexagons but theoretically could make triangles, for example.
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The hexagonal lattice is the optimal packing in 2D, but it would be wasteful to let every bee figure that out by herself.
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Replying to @Plinz
Everything is a process of optimization from stardust to whatever's ahead
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But for proper evolution you need the first cell, so it is restricted to very narrow conditions and a lot of initial luck. And ahead of us is the rising tide of entropy that will mercilessly drown the last survivors of super volcanos, meteors, ice ages, AI singularities and ennui
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No! I probably need to get off social media so I have more time and attention for reading.
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Replying to @Plinz
I've been staying off social media a lot more in the last couple of weeks and I highly recommend!pic.twitter.com/p1XweASSHN
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