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Sounds like the metaphors we apply to insect colonies - defining Queen, soldiers, and workers, or seeing factories, or brains, occlude a more objective understa
by wombatmobile 5y ago
Sounds like the metaphors we apply to insect colonies - defining Queen, soldiers, and workers, or seeing factories, or brains, occlude a more objective understanding of how they organise themselves.
- cratermoon 5y agoAlmost certainly. Even calling the reproducing female 'queen' betrays a hierarchical sensibility that social insects almost certainly do not have. See Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson.