great Jonathan Coulton reference, Cory.

Though it's a little late now (as the eggs have hatched) the Pittsburgh Aviary has a webcam set up on the Peregrine Falcon nest which is atop the Gulf Tower downtown. They've also got a tv tuned to the feed set up at street level, inside a coffeeshop.

I'd like to suggest "Sussman's Fallacy" as the term being sought.

via the (famous) AI Koan:

In the days when Sussman was a novice, Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6.
What are you doing?", asked Minsky.
"I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe.", Sussman replied.
"Why is the net wired randomly?", asked Minsky.
"I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play", Sussman said.
Minsky shut his eyes.
"Why do you close your eyes?", Sussman asked his teacher.
"So that the room will be empty."
At that moment, Sussman was enlightened.