Just found a lovely documentary on the decision to put the Haringvliet dam on a crack, then to cancel this decision, then to cancel the decision-to cancel this decision. The documentary is made by the local television station of the island Goeree Overflakkee (and unfortunately, but logically in Dutch). The most striking element of the documentary to me is the way in how the various interviewees are formulating how fishes, in this case mainly salmon, think. One person thinks the fish are afraid of the noise in the Rotterdam harbour, another is expressing what fishes think when they are swimming through a lock.
It would be way to easy to suggest a resemblance between politicians making/cancelling decisions and the 3 second memory of fishes (though the Mythbusters claim this is false). This does make an interesting case for studying the agency of non-humans and principle of generalized symmetry.
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