Here's a video to convince you just how intelligent ants are when unified. A group of researchers poured cement into a giant ant hill, to observe the tunnels and inner workings of a large ant colony's habitat They dug the earth out from around the cement when it was dry, revealing a monumental city-state that's intricacy was miles beyond their highest expectations. Have a look for yourself, see the brilliantly worked out structure created by these tiny natural architects.
You could interpret the self-organisation of ants as a metaphor for the functioning of a human mind. Ants create complex colonies in which individuals perform jobs for the greater good. Pretty much the same way that billions of neurons generate thought in our brains by communicating with each other..
Here's another shocking video that captures an incredible event seen in the ant-world. It's of a phenomenon known as the Ant Death Spiral , there's a glitch in the colony where the phermone trail that is being followed has gotten looped, the ants continue to follow the phermone trail of the ant in front of them resulting in an endless circular mill. Hundreds of thousands of ants circle round and round and round until they all eventually exhaust, and die.
Like some sort of mental illness in the mind of a person. Or one of the things we as people in this society get caught up in which then restrict our freedom such as religion or an unhappy work life resulting from a desire of money, wanting and consuming.
That last video reminded me of a tradition that Muslims carry out, where thousands gather and circle around the Kaaba in Mecca. Here's a video I found of this event. It has the same effect on me that the death ant spiral does, and the Muslims themselves appear as little ants because of the sheer quantity of them moving simultaneously.
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