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Ants give away the secrets of human brain processes

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• kodz4 7y ago
  This is a layman observation. Was just reading about the C-Elegans worm atlas and it's feeling like this "bottom up" studying of brains will yeild more insight into how brains get built and operate, than studying the human brain which just seems massively more complex. These things are specs of dust. And having spent enough time as a kid using honey to get the local colony to line up in various formations I am looking forward to programmable colonies.
  • the_seraphim 7y ago
    if we could use ants to clean carpets i would be welcome of their involvement... nano-bio-roomba colony
• tribler 7y ago
  Real article: https://static-curis.ku.dk/portal/files/128732783/Caste_specific_RNA_editomes_in_the_leaf_cutting_ant_Acromyrmex_echinatior.pdf https://static-curis.ku.dk/portal/files/128732783/Caste_spec...
• liberte82 7y ago
  Could a colony of ants form its own self-awareness? Do we understand enough about consciousness/awareness to know what the difference is between an ant network and say, a network of neurons?