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It isn't altruism anymore than your neurons are being altruistic. People have a really mistaken idea about ants (specifically using terms like queen implying th
by snapcaster 2y ago
It isn't altruism anymore than your neurons are being altruistic. People have a really mistaken idea about ants (specifically using terms like queen implying there is a hierarchy). Ant _colonies_ are intelligent creatures that learn, remember, negotiate, wage war. Ants themselves aren't intelligent, don't have a hierarchy, don't even really have a "self"
- hoseja 2y agoYep ants really are quite degenerated individually, compared even to Wasps they evolved from. I have a persistent fear that this is the fate of humanity and that we're already halfway there.