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Warfare requires belief in an idea (or a collection of ideas). Animals capable of holding beliefs and ideas are likely to have complex societies and engage in w
by glitchc 4y ago
Warfare requires belief in an idea (or a collection of ideas). Animals capable of holding beliefs and ideas are likely to have complex societies and engage in war with other complex societies espousing a different set of ideas. Both are symptoms of higher cognitive function.
- the_lonely_road 4y agoI like watching ant colonies wage war against one another. I’m not sure what you are saying is true.
- EthanHeilman 4y agoThis really comes down to how narrowly you define warfare and I'm pretty unclear on a good definition. Ant colonies fight battles with other ant colonies but do they fight wars? Does war require that the participants have some sort of shared goal? It is not an infrequent occurrence that in human wars the planners and decision makers are not unified around the aims of the war.
- User23 4y agoSomehow some mint started growing in my landscape. It's definitely waging a war on all the other weeds, and except for a few patches of monkey grass, it's winning decisively. It reminds me of the scene in Anathem where two of the monks wage a garden battle.
- pessimizer 4y agoIdeas are a pretense in war, not a cause.
- trashtester 4y agoAny social anmial that claim a territory can have warfare. From ants and up.