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> Some bees being predisposed through biology or chemical messaging to ignore information is fundamentally different from an individual deciding to ignore messa
by codetrotter 3y ago
> Some bees being predisposed through biology or chemical messaging to ignore information is fundamentally different from an individual deciding to ignore messaging
Why can’t it be that people who are prone to ignore messaging also do so because of biological predisposition? Brain chemistry!
- lazide 3y agoI guess it all boils down to the age old question - do we (uh, I mean ants) have free will?
- aeturnum 3y agoIt could be - but that's not what the author was invoking! They were talking about how having a subset of the population that doesn't follow the trends is essential for keeping up the health of the hive. It's wrong to say that "any bee could ignore the directions" - part of the system that only a small subset does. So if you want to transpose this into advice that you suggest to individuals (as the author did) - you should also suggest some notion of how an individual might detect when too many people are "following directions." Otherwise you're just advocating for following your personal inclinations - which may also be a fine thing to do - but was not what the author was saying bees do.