myrmepropagandist on Nostr: Treating ants like mechanical automata is also a kind of projection. Rather than ...
Treating ants like mechanical automata is also a kind of projection. Rather than projecting human emotions and motives on to the ants, we are projecting our ideas about machines.
And some projection must occur to even discuss what the ants are doing at all. All one can do is be transparent about how little we really know.
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