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If this were to happen, then millennia (maybe more) later, the ants would become intelligent. Approaching the stage of self-awareness. They would have gained a different level of socialization, would have begun to study the world around them, and then the universe.
The specific consciousness of an ant in such a hypothetical future world would create a completely new creature. Intelligent (perhaps even more intelligent than the Homo sapiens known to us), but with a fundamentally different consciousness and sense of the world. This difference makes it difficult to accurately describe the “intelligent ant”, since our consciousness works very differently.
It is also interesting to note the size of the ants. Developing from the point of view of consciousness, it is not a fact that there will be a jump in their size. Since this factor does not directly depend on awareness. Perhaps such ants will not change much in size and will remain small creatures.
Thus, we get small, highly developed creatures that are certainly capable of reaching technological development. The truth and technology in their case will be very different from ours. And most likely they will be more developed than those of humanity. Since on the one hand, ants will have to immediately solve the problem of compactness of “devices”. On the other hand, they will easily lack energy, again due to their own size. Which will lead at some point to a technological breakthrough that humanity has never dreamed of. Imagine a pin-sized device with the potential of supercomputers or generating the energy of an atomic bomb.
If humanity were to encounter such a civilization, the consequences would not be very optimistic for both species. First, people habitually displace competitors in their environment. Even if the “intelligent ants” themselves turn out to be peaceful and wise, humanity will be the first to show aggression, trying to keep the palm. And he will first see the threat in such creatures. Secondly, a completely different, and incompatible with human consciousness will complicate the possibility of reaching an agreement. In addition, a person is used to using templates in their life, and it will be additionally difficult to realize that a small and not very attractive creature by human standards is smarter than you. And maybe even better in some parameters. Third , our consciousness does not adapt well to everything new. Meeting such beings is like meeting an alien intelligence. Relying on past experience, a person runs the risk of falling into panic and prostration, as our consciousness will not be able to find the usual analogues from past experience, when interacting with the”intelligent ant”.
As a result, humanity is likely to try to destroy such creatures. In the struggle for existence, it is difficult to say who will win. Perhaps humanity will be completely destroyed, or vice versa. But it is obvious that there will be a military conflict, with irreversible consequences for our entire planet.
A positive scenario may also be true. If the “intelligent ant” turns out to be wiser than humans, and can hide from our society for a long time, there is a chance of a successful outcome for both civilizations. In such a situation, the former will use knowledge and ” technology “(again, we make a huge discount that this term is conditional, and the” technology ” of ants will be fundamentally different from ours) to adapt to communicating with humanity. At first, people will not even know who they are actually communicating with (which will avoid panic and conflicts), and in the future, when humanity reaches a different stage of awareness and knowledge of the world, the” intelligent ant ” will be able to gradually and carefully discover knowledge about itself.
They would very quickly run out of available resources. A famine would lead to “wars”. The remnants of this “civilization” would simply be eaten by the ” natural enemies “that have bred during the” world “on such a chic”food base”.
A person got the opportunity to develop due to the fact that at each stage he managed (including with the help of wars) to save a certain amount of available resources that could be spent on “released workers”. Ah, they were already developing society.
Funny question!
I'll offer you this option:
You should start with …and we set the same goal…
The most reasonable and popular goal is the survival of the combined species.
And since the ants have a lot of enemies, but there is not much food and it is very seasonal, then
the ants would develop special ways to scare off all their enemies and keep them at bay, allowing the enemies to serve as “herd attendants”. How harmful neighbors and thieves do not allow carp to doze off and rest on their laurels, and sick or lazy or individuals with a useless mutation-not to continue the genus, but to drop out of the evolution process.
Ants would diversify their food by organizing insects other than aphids to produce food for their species not only from May to September, but also in other seasons, and also store food for the winter.
How a person learned to preserve meat and vegetables for winter consumption.
Well, other ways of survival of the species, invented long ago by the evolution of society.
In animals, even intelligent ones. The goals are simple: eat, sleep, breed, and defend. Basically, even humans aren't too far gone. Only they use more opportunities for this. Tastier to eat, softer to sleep and perverts to have sex. There will be a new view. Ants are intelligent. They will fight not with each other, but with those who prevent them from living. They'll come up with weapons, etc.
It's all questions. Are there any species on Earth that don't fight internal wars? And how do we know what the ant species is working for, what it knows or doesn't know? And how do we know that this species does not have, or does have, some purpose? And how can this goal be understood at all, if it exists, when a person is not able to formulate the goal of his own existence?
To date, there is only one human species on the planet; the number of this species is much smaller than that of any ant species, and the intelligence of individual individuals is incomparably higher than that of an ant. So what is it?
Humanity has never been able to “stop fighting within the species” and ” unite globally.”
There are about 13 thousand species of ants (the variation in the size of working individuals – from 1 mm to 3 cm-is 30 times!), and each species is much larger in number than humanity, and each individual is much less inclined to ask questions like the one we are answering here.
Simply put, the situation of conscious association of ants is absolutely unrealizable, and the question is, in fact, absurd.
However, if you answer it directly, then in the case of a hypothetical association of ants, their numbers will probably decrease significantly due to the fact that they will stop fighting for life and resources with each other, and these resources will be greatly reduced. You should not expect any material, technical or cultural progress of ants at all: they are simply not able to process the amounts of information that they can theoretically collect, and in general do not have a truly developed language that can operate with abstract concepts.
They would have made the Internet, started sending memasiki, punching each other on IP, arguing whose mother is cooler, and eventually degraded. Just like you and me
Scientists associate intellectual abilities with the number of nerve cells, while the size of cells does not depend on the size of animals. So with a small size, ants have no chance of higher nervous activity. Scientists have also already discovered supercolonies of genetically unrelated ants.
any action immediately creates opposition and the Anglo-Saxon world has united all of humanity to fight against its only enemy-a foreign world invader. All the less significant conflicts before this would be relegated to the background and humanity as one would oppose the ant's treachery. I think the ants would be in trouble.)
Let's fantasize and guess what will happen… They could unite in a single network of collective intelligence. Most likely, it would have been done by just one of the most perfect ant species. And for this reason, the accumulation of knowledge and data operation will need a carrier. And as always, the ants will have a new ant subtype, which will be the “brain center” of the ant colony. Such an ant will be much larger in size than its counterparts, will consume much more resources and much less mobile than all the others, if only because it is overloaded with an extremely complicated nervous system compared to the usual ant. To transmit complex information, instead of a primitive chemical “language”, you need something else. For example, direct connection of the nervous system and symbiosis of the nervous system of an ant with a fungal mycelium. Over time, ordinary ants will also be tapped in order to more effectively execute the commands of “think tanks”. The architecture of the “brain” of the sapient ant will be radically different from that of humans, if only because it is based on countless ganglia connected to an incredibly complex and ornate mycelium (which gives ants intelligence). Of course, a reasonable ant will have to defend itself from humans, but evolution will help them. And an increase in size would be inevitable, but not impossible – gradual improvement of the circulatory and respiratory systems will allow them to grow in size. Most likely, they would live underground in order not to attract unnecessary attention from people. However, the fungus (most likely cordyceps) that made the ants intelligent can evolve and spread to humans…
Ants know better than anyone how to live, and they do it with great success. And if the ants followed the advice of humans and built communism according to human ideas, a catastrophe would inevitably break out in their civilization, and their civilization would stand on the brink of survival.
So you don't have to teach ants how to live. They know this much better than you do and have successfully proven it in practice.
And how do they accumulate knowledge? They have a primitive brain. There is nothing to accumulate and transfer. Even chimpanzees, which are considered the most intelligent animal after humans, have not created any civilization.
Well, obviously,the “first great ant revolution”would begin, the goal of which would be to overthrow the Anglo-Saxon world hegemony and establish “ant socialism in a single world”.
In general, you need to understand that in order for all ants on the planet to “set one goal”, you need an unrealistic jump in brain development, the product of which would be higher nervous activity(as a result, the ability to build complex and uncharacteristic plans for your species)