Representations are created and given meaning in a shared perceptual space, where they are spoken, written, and drawn in the context of social activity. Back to Jeremy Roschelle - here are the beginnings of social learning. Perhaps knowledge wasn't stored in nice cognitive structures after all, but it could still be transmitted in the form of nicely delineated representations via the environment, so I didn't worry too much about this bit of cognitive dissonance. Not until this year's AECT, that is. I read the chapter and I couldn't answer the question.
Bees are autonomous.
They have minds of some sort. They make decisions. Each bee reacts individually according to its own internal rules and the state of its local environment. There are no orders coming from a center because there is no center. It is a peer network, with management distributed throughout the system.