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Show Contentbluemellophone@lemmy.worldEnglish20·1 year agoPretty sure ants are already sentient, but I like it. Edit: apparently ant sentience is somewhat hotly debated, and the current understanding of ant consciousness and metacognition is murky.
Show ContentDharma Curious (he/him)@slrpnk.net7·1 year agoHonestly, people getting sentient/sapient messed up in fiction is one of my pet peeves, and here I go doing it myself. Sapient ants. A colony of sapient ants
Show ContentByteJunk@lemmy.world3·1 year agoI love that you came back and added that edit, that’s some commitment to keeping us up to date on the latest scientific breakthroughs about ant brains (I mean, I’d they have one?) and I appreciate it. Edit: ants do in fact have (tiny) brains.
Pretty sure ants are already sentient, but I like it.
Edit: apparently ant sentience is somewhat hotly debated, and the current understanding of ant consciousness and metacognition is murky.
Honestly, people getting sentient/sapient messed up in fiction is one of my pet peeves, and here I go doing it myself.
Sapient ants. A colony of sapient ants
I love that you came back and added that edit, that’s some commitment to keeping us up to date on the latest scientific breakthroughs about ant brains (I mean, I’d they have one?) and I appreciate it.
Edit: ants do in fact have (tiny) brains.