Reminds of research of termite mounds. A researcher mused that maybe mounds are best understood as a composite animal that in some sense, itself has a soul. One

Reminds of research of termite mounds. A researcher mused that maybe mounds are best understood as a composite animal that in some sense, itself has a soul. One particular scientist "imagined that eventually the mound would evolve into a being that could move across the veldt – very slowly in its dirt skin – a monster hybrid of soil and soul."[1] [1] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/sep/18/a-giant-crawling-brain-the-jaw-dropping-world-of-termites https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/sep/18/a-giant-crawlin...