Something Old (about importance and intelligence of ants)
This is something I wrote in September 2001 . I always wanted to put it on the Internet but never did it . One reason for this is that I never came to compile the bibliography or literature-list...
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"it's because this urge to expand, fight and change everything is the foundation of our intelligence! this is the very reason why we are intelligent and have a "brain the size of a planet". if we...
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kalimant: i agree that its a bit pretentious statement.this "ruthlessness" was a real necessity once upon the time.the situation has changed and the ruthlessness remained.and it is based on the very...
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Kuene , I agree with you but I have a few remarks !First : We are a species of big ape that became reproductively active in its youth-phase ( This is called neoteny ! Good reviews of this in S. J....
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I hope I didn't offend anybody with my last reply ! It's only pure science ! I find it a pity that we went on about humans instead of going on about the importance and intelligence of ants...
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Teleutotje -No offence taken (not even almost!)To get back to the importance and intelligence of ants:What I was trying to say about the colony as a super-organism is that when comparing intelligence...
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" Plenty of other animals have thumbs ... "It is not about the thumb ( A lot of mammals have thumbs ! ) but the fact that it is opposable , that we ( and a few other species . ) can bring our thumb in...
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>>>[regarding opposable thumbs]That was something completely new ( others just walk on their fingers ! ) and gave us a start that was completed with the growth of our cortex ! So we started...
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I think one problem in this discussion is that intelligence has more than one definition.so there are several kind of intelligence.but what i wanted to say is that "intelligence"(flexible brainpower)...
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teleutotje: "We are not the most " intelligent " creature on this earth !"by what criterion do you then judge intelligence, because i would think that a species that is capable of reaching the moon...
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>>>kalimant:...but the so-called "intelligence" of ants at the colony level may be nothing more than emergent behavior, which is a phenomenon that has been used to explain lots of things,...
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Kalimant :" By what criterion do you then judge intelligence , because I would think that a species that is capable of reaching the moon and flying probes to nearby stars sure does get my vote for...
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maybe we should give some definitions for intelligence.my definitions:1.computing power of the brain.2.capability to live integrated in nature and play an important role for the health of the...
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well, we were discussing the intelligence of humans vs ants....i was playing devil's advocate, etc.by the definitions given by you, kuene, i'd say ants could only be considered more "intelligent" then...
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This is the definition I gave in the " article " :" What is intelligence ? This is a very short answer : clever , reasonable thought . A person or animal is intelligent if he or it knows what he or it...
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Oh yes , with this definition , humans are very intelligent on a short time table ! But in the long run they aren't because they destroy their environment !Teleutotje" I am who I am , I think ... "
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Teleutotje:" An animal is intelligent if it knows how to adapt effectively to the environment , either by making a change in oneself or by changing the environment or finding a new one , and so makes...
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I have enjoyed reading this discourse on the relative merits of humans versus social insects. However, it occurs to me that winter has arrived in Europa and the long nights, slush, and extra helpings...
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well, if we're going to make up our own shades of definitions for intelligence, then obviously we can slant it in such a way to make social insects as being more intelligent than humans...in terms of...
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antobserver:that's interesting...any reason why they would do that? are resources limiting?
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