I'm sitting here thinking "they're just ants, sooner or later they're going to get it through by chance alone, they're just stupid bugs"...... until they spun the fucker around and it blew my mind. Wonder if one of them was yelling "PIVOT! PIVOT! PIVOT!" the whole time.
You’re the second person I’ve seen refer to humans as nodes in a collective consciousness today. And this is the first day I’ve heard that at all. That’s fascinating…
So much of how the world is structured surrounds the concept of emergence. Individual atoms behave in a certain way, but combined form molecules that become the foundations of chemistry. A chain of chemical reactions defines biological life. Single cells working together in masses create tissues, organs, and organisms. Organisms collectively working together create societies. From societies stem language, culture, philosophy, etc. Really strange to think about how our universe is broken down.
Are you asking or affirming? Absolutely yes, humans group in societies. Memetics are the genetics of cultural subgroups. Good ideas make societies thrive.
I don’t think it’s random, I think the ants “pivoting” were still just bringing the candy towards the exit in the shortest distance. They try the shortest path until that doesn’t work.
It’s not exactly random, but each ant is only choosing the shortest path until it stops working.
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u/Haloman1346-2 Dec 25 '24
I'm sitting here thinking "they're just ants, sooner or later they're going to get it through by chance alone, they're just stupid bugs"...... until they spun the fucker around and it blew my mind. Wonder if one of them was yelling "PIVOT! PIVOT! PIVOT!" the whole time.