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> There's a vast difference in complexity between what ants do, and what humans do. Interesting parallell with intelligence/sentience/sapience. Despite the mea
by ASalazarMX 3y ago
> There's a vast difference in complexity between what ants do, and what humans do.
Interesting parallell with intelligence/sentience/sapience. Despite the means, isn't the end result what you have to judge? The end result looks like a rudimentary civilization. How much back in time would we have to go back to find more sophistication in ant societies than humans?
- TeMPOraL 3y ago> Despite the means, isn't the end result what you have to judge? The end result looks like a rudimentary civilization. I'm indeed talking about the ends. The operative phrase here is "it looks like". It looks like a civilization, there are even some structural similarities to be found - but it is not a civilization, anymore than a Lego brick with a computer sticker on it is a PC. This is not to deny that ants are awesome and very much worth studying - my point is to avoid following flawed analogies too far. "Ant colonies look like rudimentary civilization, and civilization is/does X, therefore..." is going to be a nonsense statements for most of possible values of X.