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Re:The Grayness of the Origin of Life by hahajk on Friday July 23, 2021 @10:54PM (#27938036)
And some might say “but the hive itself doesn’t have consciousness, or an ‘experience’”. Which is impossible for you to know, unless you are (or have been) a hive.
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Re:The Grayness of the Origin of Life by BurningFrog on Friday July 23, 2021 @11:22PM (#27938139)
If you attack the hive, it definitely defends itself. It looks for food, etc...

It is popular to admire the selfless ants or bees who willingly give their lives for their society.

But if you think of them as cells of an organism, that happens in every living being.

When you see a hive sacrificing itself, we can talk :)

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Re:The Grayness of the Origin of Life by mongol on Saturday July 24, 2021 @12:08AM (#27938323)
This is an example of the greyness that the article discusses. If hives are to be seen as distinct life, it will be quite close to the end of a spectrum.
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Re:The Grayness of the Origin of Life by andi999 on Saturday July 24, 2021 @01:51AM (#27938795)
The end of the spectrum is probably more at thinking of human cities as distinct life forms.
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