gluttonous adventure king

Chapter 266 Wisdom and Sensibility

"There are probably more than a thousand ants in this range."

Thousands of ants are constantly circling in this small area of ​​land, and it feels like watching a black tornado, which is the same as seeing a rotating typhoon cyclone on the weather forecast satellite cloud image.

"There's nothing in the center, no dead bodies, no food."

"In fact, this phenomenon is not so rare. Of course, ordinary people living in cities have no chance to see it, because this phenomenon only occurs in army ants. It is called ant vortex."

It's like a vortex suddenly appeared above the sea.

"Army ants have no eyes. Some worker ants responsible for detecting food guide the ant colony to approach by leaving pheromone signals. The ants behind follow the smell and keep circling in the same place, leaving behind the smell. As a result, this circle has become an unbreakable circle, and the latecomers keep blocking the road and cannot go out, while the outsiders think that they are advancing along a road looking for food."

"After a large number of ants pass by, this smell becomes heavier and heavier, so heavy that the ants here can't smell other smells at all, so they can only choose to follow the front team."

When you observe ants, you will find that the path forward of some ants is not a straight line. Once the ants walk in a straight line, it is probably going to rain and they are moving.

But if it is not before the rain, they will run around, actually looking for food, but they have eyes.

Just imagine what would happen if an army ant accidentally turned around in a circle.

The answer is that after turning a circle, it smelled the scent left by itself. With the nervous reaction of the ant, it is impossible to remember that it was left by itself, so it continued to move along the inner circle of the smell, lap after lap. Circle until it reaches the center of the circle, it is confused, and it turns around on the spot between square inches.

But army ants are a social animal and come out in groups when looking for food.

When an ant falls into a ring trap set by itself, there will be ants following behind, then two, three, finally ten, a hundred, until all of them fall into the ring trap.

What would a single army ant feel when it was outside?It may feel that its companions have found the carcass of a cow, and the smell is as strong as the nest of other ants.

Won't the ants wake up?

Yes, the worker ants suddenly find that they can’t find food here, and they want to leave, but within a second, their simple nerves will feel the strong smell of pheromones, and it will automatically cut to another place to find food. task.

Once caught in this death vortex, this group of army ants will die.

"Unlike most ants, army ants can't see, and they don't have a nest. Army ants will keep moving to find food. The leader army ants will leave traces for others to follow. Once the first army ant has a problem, the whole group will die. Ruined."

As if to prove Fang Hong's argument, it began to rain.

This is Honduras, and the rain here is huge.

Fang Hong took out a waterproof tablecloth to cover his body.

It was raining heavily, and the army ants were still circling in circles.

"This is a relief. Most ants will die in the rain. If there is no heavy rain, they will rotate in a strange circle for a day or two until they die. In the end, even if they can't crawl, they will continue to move forward."

They will step forward on the corpses of their predecessors.

Just like human beings, sometimes they think they are brave and go forward one after another. In fact, at the source, that is a mistake. Any social animal may encounter the same trap, but only army ants and humans will come so tragically.

"For hundreds of millions of years, this kind of scene has been staged countless times in the large colony of army ants. This phenomenon was first observed in 1936. This phenomenon was named the death vortex of ants. There is nothing but death. way out."

"The ending is already doomed, don't read it."

If you look at it, you will see that one after another, ants are lying on the ground and dying.

Man is a very strange creature. If a human being sees a cow die, he will not react in any way, but when he sees a herd animal like ant die in such a way, he will feel sad from the bottom of his heart, because Human beings are like that too.

Don't think that ants have leaders, leaders and queens, but humans don't.

In modern philosophy, there is a term called the global brain, which means that all human behaviors and consciousnesses in the world are fused together to form a consciousness that exists but cannot be detected. That consciousness is the global brain.

A single person can never understand what the GB thinks, even if you are Einstein.

When Einstein witnessed other physicists deduce quantum mechanics with his theory of relativity, Einstein refused. Einstein believed that God would not do such a thing. The famous saying is that God does not throw colors son.There are also many people who say that after the theory of relativity, Newtonian mechanics lost its charm. In fact, Einstein himself did not think about this problem. Einstein did not even recognize quantum mechanics. He was a loyal fan of Newton and was a great physicist in the first half of his life. Scientist, the second half of his life was a theologian.

Every great scientist of various disciplines will eventually become a philosopher, and further become a theologian. They want to figure out what the global brain thinks.

However, there is no way for one person to guess what the collective mind of 60 billion people is thinking.It's like Nokia doesn't count that everyone prefers Android.

The ant can't think of the idea of ​​the ant colony, it can only follow.

Every human being has his own ideals, his own dreams, and his own way of life, but everyone's ideals are destined, and everyone's dreams are determined before you produce them.

It's just that humans don't know it.

The ancients said, fate, what does the word fate mean? Fate refers to the nature endowed by nature; luck refers to the changes in various stages of life.

The environment in which each person is born determines his nature, and each person's stage of growth and the changes formed drive the changes.

"Some factors in human nature make the leader of human beings constantly fall into the vortex. Everyone is like an ant, constantly spinning."

An ant has no self-awareness and no sense of existence.

A group of ants has the characteristics of an ant colony, has a special behavior, and has a strong sense of existence.

"In the heavy rain, what we see is not ants with strange behaviors in the ant colony, but a spark of thinking in the history of biological evolution over the past billions of years, but this is a wrong spark, and wisdom will go wrong. If it happens in In a person, we call this a brain pit." World War I and World War II were both triggered by the Industrial Revolution, did you discover that the steam engine caused World War I, the internal combustion engine caused World War II, and perhaps the development of artificial intelligence and the Internet will lead to the third world war.

"Although human beings are like an ant, we are different. After millions of years of evolution, human beings have produced an organ that is different from ordinary creatures, the frontal lobe of the brain. We often hear the brain in biology class It is composed of two halves, the left and the right. In fact, it is not. The brain is composed of two parts: the lizard brain and the frontal lobe. The dinosaur brain more than 1 million years ago had one less frontal lobe than ours. This frontal lobe is the source of our perceptual knowledge, it is The source of our emotions and EQ, I have never admired a person with a good memory and rational thinking, because a dinosaur that died in history may be smarter than him. I like people with high EQ, because those people’s EQ changed the world .”

The world is not changed by IQ, but by EQ.

It's as if words didn't change the world, poetry changed the world, drawing didn't change the world, painting did, rhythm doesn't change the world, music does.

"Do you know that everyone who likes to watch movies, listen to music, appreciate painting and calligraphy, and read novels has a higher emotional intelligence than others, because compared with ants, we only have more of these meaningful behaviors. "

"So, watching a live broadcast or reading a novel, is it regarded as a higher creature?"

"Hearing Brother Gun say that, I'm very elated."

Don't be so good at expressing your intelligence, and look for the beauty of the world instead of showing intelligence and being more civilized.

　"The Great Change of Text"

　　
　
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