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The difference between ants and humans being that humans can invent ways to understand what is going on in the river. If there's something out there and it is d
by toasterlovin 8y ago
The difference between ants and humans being that humans can invent ways to understand what is going on in the river. If there's something out there and it is discoverable in principle, there's a good chance we'll discover it someday.
- vokep 8y agoThis. We think we can see clearly with our senses and command the world at will, and we can, compared to ants. But what would an ant thinking about a river it's observing be like? Ok tbh idk if an ant is best expample, lets just assume its able to think to the level I'm describing. So the ant is looking at the river, what does it see? Most likely just a bunch of shimmering stuff, just randomness. Maybe it notices there are patterns but, it likely has a hard time even determining that what is in front of it has the same stuff that it finds on grass in the mornings. The thing is, the ant can't really see anything clearly. What it does know, and can see clearly is navigation of its tunnels and working with the other ants. Unlike ants, we can use our rationality to go beyond our senses. Instead of looking at rivers we look at space, planets around stars light years away.
- toasterlovin 8y agoAnd that's all true before you even get to the fact that it looks like we are on the cusp of some really breathtaking ways of augmenting our intelligence.