And they discovered something very interesting: when it comes to walking, most of the ant's thinking and decision-making is not in its brain at all. It's distributed. It's in its legs.
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An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being's, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.
It would seem that the ant works its way tentatively, and, observing where it fails, tries another place and succeeds.
The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.
The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation.
The ant world is a tumult, a noisy world of pheromones being passed back and forth.
An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.
Viewed as a geometric figure, the ant's path is irregular, complex, and hard to describe.
Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to see the whole beast, and now you observe it thinking, planning, calculating. It is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for its wits.
Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labour, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.
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