A colony of ants operates similarly to a brain with each ant acting like a single neuron. They communicate by smell and their language is pheromones. It's incredibly complex. This is a great way to visualize it.
There's a novel by Adrian Tchaikovsky in which an intelligent race of large spiders uses ant colonies as computers, eventually breeding them to be microscopic in size and capable of being the hardware for a pre-existing artificial intelligence. Seeing this, this feels even more plausible.
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u/SegelXXX 4d ago edited 3d ago
A colony of ants operates similarly to a brain with each ant acting like a single neuron. They communicate by smell and their language is pheromones. It's incredibly complex. This is a great way to visualize it.