Each flamingo makes up its own mind. The extremely complex motion of a flock of flamingos arises naturally from the interactions of hundreds of independent birds. Each flamingo has only a vague notion of the behavior of the flock as a whole. The complexity of flocking, while real, takes place entirely outside of the flamingo's brain. The individual flamingo has no mental conception of the vast impressive aerial ballet in which it happens to be taking part.
Flamingos fly from their roosts to their feeding grounds, day after day, year in year out.
But they will never fly there exactly the same way twice. Their flying order is not memorized, they don't have numbered places in line, or appointed posts, or maneuver orders. Ants don't have blueprints either. Ants have become the totem animals of Artificial Life. But an individual ant is a profoundly stupid creature.