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Zooming out the ant colony is almost like a life form with individual ants as cells. I sometimes wonder about whether humans are a cell-like life-form for our
by mensetmanusman 3y ago
Zooming out the ant colony is almost like a life form with individual ants as cells.
I sometimes wonder about whether humans are a cell-like life-form for our larger civilizations and whether any civilization has consciousness of some sort.
- hotpotamus 3y agoYes, if you keep bees, you find that almost every action you take kills at least a few of them, and sometimes a few hundred for varroa mite sampling. It’s a bit less worrying if you think about them more as cells of a distributed organism. Also, they will instantly sacrifice themselves for their hives without hesitation. The closest human analog would probably be more like a tribe.