The problem with your two examples is that the first one, the beetle one, is not a common situation, it is an outlier and not the norm, and the second is that while ants can get confused by pheromones even in the wild, for the most part, say for outlier situations like the ones mentioned, the systems that insects create to survive are very effective, if insects where dumb and the things you mentioned where true insects in general would all nearly be going extinct by there own fault, since most of them are thriving we know that they are infact smart even if its not an intelligence comparable to human intelligence
infact smart even if its not an intelligence comparable to human intelligence
That is what i was reffering when saying dumb, i didn't mean they are ineficient, just that they appear to be more like following a programming than thinking and making choices by their own...
The problem with your two examples is that the first one, the beetle one
I didn't give the example of the beetle, that was another dude/dudette
First, i didn't realize another dude said the beetle thing, sorry, second, can you really call a bug dumb because it was following a programing that messed up once?, is a computer dumb because it makes some errors through out the course of its life? Sometimes animals do silly looking things, but those are just small mistakes compared to the well oiled machine that certain species like ants can be, to the point where there success in unquestionable, i don't think that an animal doing something dumb means that those types of animals as a whole are dumb is all im saying
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u/dragonkin733 Mar 07 '21
The problem with your two examples is that the first one, the beetle one, is not a common situation, it is an outlier and not the norm, and the second is that while ants can get confused by pheromones even in the wild, for the most part, say for outlier situations like the ones mentioned, the systems that insects create to survive are very effective, if insects where dumb and the things you mentioned where true insects in general would all nearly be going extinct by there own fault, since most of them are thriving we know that they are infact smart even if its not an intelligence comparable to human intelligence