# Behavior of Organisms

**URL:** <http://discourse.iapct.org/t/behavior-of-organisms/15986>\
**Category:** Phenomena\
**Created:** [October 22, 2022, 6:02pm UTC](http://discourse.iapct.org/t/behavior-of-organisms/15986 "2022-10-22T18:02:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![bnhpct](http://discourse.iapct.org/user_avatar/discourse.iapct.org/bnhpct/32/34_2.png) [@bnhpct](http://discourse.iapct.org/u/bnhpct)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2022, 6:08pm UTC](http://discourse.iapct.org/t/behavior-of-organisms/15986/7 "2022-12-30T18:08:05Z")

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> [@rsmarken](#):
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> I asked “If you could describe an example of non-motor behavior that you had trouble fitting into my pre-established columns in the spreadsheet”. I couldn’t find an answer to that in your post so I wonder if you could describe such an example when you get a chance. It’s important to me because I think the pre-established columns in my spreadsheet – behavior, CV, reference, means, and disturbance – do cover the essential elements of all behavior, whether it’s considered to be motor or non-motor.

I thought I posted this at the time (the end of October!) but evidently I didn’t, and I see it was because I hadn’t answered as fully as I wanted.

Yes, the column heads name the essential elements — behavior (observed phenomena), CV, reference value, means, and disturbance. Specifying these with actionable precision becomes more difficult at higher levels — actionable either for experiment or for modeling. Under the means column, it is necessary to specify these essential elements at each successively lower level of control (presumably by reference to other rows of the table). Without that, we risk mere hand-waving. Or multiple instances of the CROWD program with the interpretive labels changed.

Many such perceptions are involved in diverse instances of [the Matthew Effect](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_effect). (I also referred to it [here](http://discourse.iapct.org/t/autonomy-and-evolution/15991/26)).

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