> There might also be a lack of the memory and consistent identity that allows an ant to uphold commitments it made with me five minutes ago. "An ant?!?" I won

> There might also be a lack of the memory and consistent identity that allows an ant to uphold commitments it made with me five minutes ago. "An ant?!?" I wonder which has more completely saturated the Earth's ecosystem-- American-style libertarian ideology or plastic. Judging from the article I'd guess the former. I do wish there was something we could give an indoor ant invasion besides a poison pill. Remember that old X Files where Bryan Cranston's character has to keep traveling West for some inexplicable reason? Maybe there's a way to fashion "rambler crumbs" that temporarily make the ants shoot off in a direction away from the house. Then when they come to, they find their way back to hill. And the crumb they bring makes more ants shoot off to the West, until all the ants eventually believe "There's gold in them there hills!" (And if they go far enough West perhaps there is...)