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This is trivial. It's also borderline inhumane.
by dsfsdfd 11y ago
This is trivial. It's also borderline inhumane.
- Filligree 11y agoThey're ants. I get where you're coming from, but they're ants. Your cellphone is smarter.
- arel 11y agoI don't disagree but it always makes me wonder if aliens are out there tearing a few of us limb from limb and saying... they're only humans.
- knieveltech 11y agoTo confirm, you literally spend time wondering if humans are being torn limb from limb by alien species?
- brink 11y agoWhoa, this is a pressing situation, here.
- dsfsdfd 11y agoHow do you know? I know a lot about brains, I like brains and I am not certain that I can quantify the degree of suffering likely to be felt by an ant.
- tehchromic 11y ago"your cellphone is smarter" -- I'd like to disagree without being disagreeable! I'd say ants are at least an order of magnitude smarter than a cell phone. Ants are less intelligible to humans maybe, as their intelligence is not of service to us, but they are most definitely more useful to us than phones as well.
- Sven7 11y agoThe Ant has possibly the largest brain/body mass ratio in the entire animal kingdom. Which is possibly why there are 10 million more ants per human on the planet. That's a smart brain in my book. Having said that I am all for mass ant sacrifice to figure out the magic.
- izzydata 11y agoSure, but cellphones don't actually have any level of intelligence and could never solve a task it wasn't programmed to do.
- dsfsdfd 11y agohttp://brainblogger.com/2015/06/26/do-insects-have-emotions-and-empathy/ http://brainblogger.com/2015/06/26/do-insects-have-emotions-...
- gene-h 11y agoIt's not trivial. Imagine trying to computationally model this. And this does have practical applications too, better understanding of how ants flow in aggregates could have applications in modular robotics and claytronics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claytronics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claytronics