I'm still in awe.
These tiny collaborators bypass every trap that larger minds might fall for.
Immunity to Irrationality
They quietly choose what is best for the colony. A worse, "decoy" option lurks in the background. They are not swayed by fleeting illusions or comparisons. These tiny creatures are immune to the "irrationality" that can beguile larger, more complex minds.
One cannot help but marvel. Such an elegant system emerges not from a single brilliant thinker, but from signals passed among thousands of tiny individuals.
"most individual ants know of only a single option, and the colony’s collective choice self-organizes from interactions among many poorly-informed ants,”
Relinquishing ego-centric judgments can unite entire populations as mindful collaborators. This is true even under duress and with scarce resources.
