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What's the most significant thing you could do as an ant, if you kept your current mind? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 3 weeks ago by NoSpotOfGround to c/asklemmy

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Imagine you were reborn as a female queen ant with an expected lifespan of about 15 years (worker ants live about half a queen's timespan), and had the ambition to make the most of your tiny new life. And you got to keep your current intellectual capacity and knowledge.

How much could you achieve as an ant?

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[–] AceSLive 21 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Depends on whether I also get the knowledge on living as an ant, as a queen, in a colony.

Hardest thing would be predators.

I suppose the best I could do would be to find something to write with, like dirt or ink, and a scrap of paper, and "walk" some words along a page, hopefully notify a good human that I was an intelligent/human ant - and from there I'd be at the mercy of capitalism...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What on earth would you write?

[–] AceSLive 1 points 3 weeks ago

I feel almost anything would be good, at first - just to show I had human like sentience..

One small example would be "Don't kill me. I have something to tell you"

Or if I had plenty of time

"Hello, I am the ant you can see. I was once human. To prove it, ask me a question and wait while I write the answer..."

Something like that

Once I'd been proven an "ex human" I'd probably demand to see my lord and saviour, Sir David Attenborough