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Redjard@reddthat.com 22 hours agocloser to clones than individual consciousnesses
You know that genetic clones are still individuals with independent brains, right?
Like twins don’t have to take on the same profession or have the same personality. They’re about as mentally different as any other random person.
wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 hours ago
You should look into the percentage of difference, friend. These are not “twins” by any means.
Rugnjr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 hours ago
Are you aware of what identical twins are?
Redjard@reddthat.com 22 hours ago
Then, other than their genetic code, what else is copied between individuals? Is their brain fully encoded in their chromosomes? Does the queen ant go and copy the same brain into all worker ants? Do the worker ants, when pupating, connect to the colonies wifi network and download the current neuronal image for network booting?
Do they share their fingerprints (for example hair placement) too?
MeatPilot@sh.itjust.works 22 hours ago
Insects are complex and different in how they process information. Ants are smart for insects, but still not fully individuals in the same way we look at mamamilian brains.
wildlifeinformer.com/do-ants-have-brains/
The simple answer is thoughts are pheromones. Essentially one ant shares it’s individual experiences with the entire colony and the colony all works for the same goals. So yeah they kinda connect to the colony organic wifi.
Redjard@reddthat.com 21 hours ago
So every ant, clone or not, is probably set up to only function in a colony.
And I assume the genetics determine the language, so that even related ant nests don’t merge but stay distinct?
Bay_of_Piggies@hexbear.net 22 hours ago
The argument is that ant colonies are better understood as organisms themselves with the individuals acting more like limbs.
Redjard@reddthat.com 22 hours ago
Which you can argue for, but doesn’t stem from them being all almost twins.
I can say Humans are 99.6% genetically identical, and I can say nations are kinda like independent organisms (more sketchy a statement than for ants), but I definitely can’t say Humans are 99.6% genetically identical, and thus nations are kinda like independent organisms.
“Ants are almost twins” is not the cause of “Ants are not really autonomous individuals”