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Re:Bees Can Learn, Remember, Think and Make Decisions by hotpotamus on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @12:20AM (#36222783)
I keep bees and enjoy them on a few levels, but they're far from being sentimental animals. They regularly kill their siblings off for one reason or another; I find it helpful to think of the hive as a single, distributed organism with the individuals akin to cells.
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Re:Bees Can Learn, Remember, Think and Make Decisions by p1necone on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @12:46AM (#36222934)
Alternatively phrased: bee "sentimental" is different from human "sentimental" - we make self sacrifices to help other individual humans, bees make (self & other individual) sacrifices to help the hive as a whole.
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Re:Bees Can Learn, Remember, Think and Make Decisions by nosianu on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @05:17AM (#36224639)
We do sacrifice our own. Death penalty for one, and sending soldiers into battle, two different examples.
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