The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation.
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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.
It would seem that the ant works its way tentatively, and, observing where it fails, tries another place and succeeds.
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.
Ants are good citizens, they place group interests first.
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.
We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
Ants can live together in solidarity and forget themselves in the community. In a normative capitalist society, everyone is an egoist. In the ants' civilization, you are part of the group; you don't live for yourself alone.
It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?
If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?