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| Radiolab episode on "Emergence" by Fullofkittens 10/15/2020, 7:01am PDT | ||||
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Radiolab is always fascinating and this is a Top 10 episode. In it, it's revealed that ants are basically tiny robots that don't know anything, feel anything, understand anything. The "organism" is the colony. All of us that read Ender's Game knew this already, but what we all intuitively get wrong and what Orson Scott Card got wrong is that there isn't some Smart Ant running the show: ants accomplish amazing things as a group while individually understanding nothing about what's happening. |
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This is the ants forum by 10/13/2020, 2:11pm PDT  Re: This is the ants forum by 10/13/2020, 4:54pm PDT Re: This is the ants forum by 10/14/2020, 9:53am PDT Re: This is the ants forum by 10/14/2020, 2:19pm PDT Radiolab episode on "Emergence" by 10/15/2020, 7:01am PDT This is the sort of ant-based content I have been looking for. Thanks. NT by 10/15/2020, 8:53am PDT When you think about it what does an individual brain cell in your skull "know?" NT by 10/15/2020, 8:59am PDT I started thinking of a single ant like a neuron NT by 10/16/2020, 4:50pm PDT ANTS. ANTS. One for Legends of the Fall, please! ANTS. NT by 10/14/2020, 10:18am PDT |
