RE: Do Humans Have Compulsary Will? Which best describes your take on 'will'?
June 7, 2015 at 3:00 pm
(This post was last modified: June 7, 2015 at 3:10 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
The example of ant is a powerful one. I don't know if anyone ever sat around (maybe as a kid) and wondered who was directing all that work. Who, or what, whatever. That;s just above ground...down below they build discomfortingly structured colonies. They are consistent, there is a "standard model" colony. They bury their dead away from their young, and away from their main living and storage quarters. Their colonies show a sense of perspective and planning which would be a POV that no individual ant -could possibly have-. Their chemical language is simple (relative to the complexity of language in the general)
- and yet.....look at what they can do...look at those behaviors, which, when we see others doing them, we attribute to mind. I wonder if/how many ants (and I wonder in the general, lol)...if there even -is- a number of ants, it would take to approximate a human mind? At what point would the behaviors observed seem to us, sufficient to conclude that the colony is thinking, does have mind, does plan? Not that they do this in " the conscious human fashion" that we -think- we do this in...but that this co-operative information sharing process is how that's -done-, our experience is a misapprehension of fact directly attributable to the system we use to participate in this exchange of information .
- and yet.....look at what they can do...look at those behaviors, which, when we see others doing them, we attribute to mind. I wonder if/how many ants (and I wonder in the general, lol)...if there even -is- a number of ants, it would take to approximate a human mind? At what point would the behaviors observed seem to us, sufficient to conclude that the colony is thinking, does have mind, does plan? Not that they do this in " the conscious human fashion" that we -think- we do this in...but that this co-operative information sharing process is how that's -done-, our experience is a misapprehension of fact directly attributable to the system we use to participate in this exchange of information .
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