Could you imagine the confusion if you are used to it though... you've considered this scent to mean dead your whole life. would be kind of like as a human noticing your heart isn't beating, your skin is pale... realizing you are in a coffin and everyone's performing a service... hmm... guess I am dead. course I guess that's kind of the difference is humans aren't so accepting of things. we could be unable to move, realize we are looking from the perspective of our head, which is on the ground 2' away from the rest of our body and our first thought would be, "Hey can you hear me? Hello!!.
Side note: I am furious that I wasn't able to find the name of this syndrome without ChatGPT. Is this a skill issue or are traditional search engines (in this case DuckDuckGo) just completely useless now?
duckduckgo has become pretty worthless for search, ecosia is slightly better i think but without the privacy benefits. i have a local llm running in koboldcpp that i use if i really need to just bounce words off something while it nods along
More commonly known as E. O. Wilson in his publications. Highly important scientist. Postulated that humans are eusocial creatures similar to ants, termites, seahorses, and naked mole rats because we follow a hierarchical pecking order.
Read his book "The Social Conquest of Earth" if this intrigues you.
Postulated that humans are eusocial creatures similar to ants, termites, seahorses, and naked mole rats because we follow a hierarchical pecking order.
Source? Eusociality does not involve any sort of 'hierarchical pecking order'. The requirements are co-operative childcare, overlapping generations and division of labour.
Like it or not, there are people with more power that dictate structure and an order of things.
That didn't work out too well for the French monarchy, did it?
It's more accurate to say that the average person doesn't desire a power structure but merely tolerates it so long as it provides them with some benefit. The moment those structures become oppressive, they get violently torn down.
In what world do people who have more power have it based on biology? You think trump is some biological specimen to get into power? Or is it the societal structure we created that allowed him to rise to power?
The hierarchical structure of humans is some literal right winger shit.
Well damn. I wasn't expecting to be adding a new book to my reading list as a result of this thread, but y'all's enthusiasm is such that I feel I have to.
"The Ants" isn't casual reading, it's a dense compendium of everything known about ants, covering every known genus and their morphology and behavior. There's a key, too, so you can identify ants based on their morphology, assuming you ever feel like counting antennomeres or tarsal segments.
I think a living human who smelled like a rotting corpse would be forced to go away from other people too.
Was this a House episode?
In a lot of places in the US, a living human who smelled like a rotting corpse is going to catch 2 to the head.
Or be nominated a Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Could you imagine the confusion if you are used to it though... you've considered this scent to mean dead your whole life. would be kind of like as a human noticing your heart isn't beating, your skin is pale... realizing you are in a coffin and everyone's performing a service... hmm... guess I am dead. course I guess that's kind of the difference is humans aren't so accepting of things. we could be unable to move, realize we are looking from the perspective of our head, which is on the ground 2' away from the rest of our body and our first thought would be, "Hey can you hear me? Hello!!.
Depends on the human. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotard%27s_syndrome
Side note: I am furious that I wasn't able to find the name of this syndrome without ChatGPT. Is this a skill issue or are traditional search engines (in this case DuckDuckGo) just completely useless now?
I googled "human thinks he's dead" and that Wikipedia page was the first result
well "skill issue" was one of the options so it might be that
Why "human"? Seems a weird way to phrase it but I can't deny it works.
Well I don't think you'd find it if you tried platypus
Normally these types of articles use more clinical verbiage
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Pretty much the whole Internet got worse in the last decade. Search engines are a pain to use nowadays.
duckduckgo has become pretty worthless for search, ecosia is slightly better i think but without the privacy benefits. i have a local llm running in koboldcpp that i use if i really need to just bounce words off something while it nods along
seems like it might be skill issue in this case. a Google search for "medical condition person thinks they're dead" gave it immediately
Honestly while I don't like the AI searches, this instance maybe skill issue. Brain fart or smth
that seems to be the consensus, I've accepted it :P
"Ed Wilson"
More commonly known as E. O. Wilson in his publications. Highly important scientist. Postulated that humans are eusocial creatures similar to ants, termites, seahorses, and naked mole rats because we follow a hierarchical pecking order.
Read his book "The Social Conquest of Earth" if this intrigues you.
Not the anarchists
My ex would say, "that rules like anarchy." Cute.
Source? Eusociality does not involve any sort of 'hierarchical pecking order'. The requirements are co-operative childcare, overlapping generations and division of labour.
The source is racism: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-complicated-legacy-of-e-o-wilson/
Never meet your heroes, huh?
Sounds like propaganda tbh
That didn't work out too well for the French monarchy, did it?
It's more accurate to say that the average person doesn't desire a power structure but merely tolerates it so long as it provides them with some benefit. The moment those structures become oppressive, they get violently torn down.
Its been pretty oppressive for a while now - c'mon America, wake up...
Lol, it's pseudoscientific propaganda. Don't pretend Wilson isn't controversial
Also, I ain't your pal, buddy!
Edit: I made this for you https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/49396386
In what world do people who have more power have it based on biology? You think trump is some biological specimen to get into power? Or is it the societal structure we created that allowed him to rise to power?
The hierarchical structure of humans is some literal right winger shit.
Lions are eusocial
smells itself
eh I guess I died....
You have a spray bottle of oleic acid
Who do you spray: Trump, JD Vance, RFK jr or Caroline Leavitt
Yes
Correct
For humans, I heard it say to use butyric acid.
RFK jr because funny
Yeah be he’s already half dead from the worm
not interested unless it's fluoroantimonic acid
E.O. Wilson is a monster scientist. His book "The Ants" is mind-bogglingly thorough
Also, Social Conquest of Earth.
E.O. Wilson is my hero. More people should study his work for how to approach science. Passion and curiosity got him everywhere.
Well damn. I wasn't expecting to be adding a new book to my reading list as a result of this thread, but y'all's enthusiasm is such that I feel I have to.
"The Ants" isn't casual reading, it's a dense compendium of everything known about ants, covering every known genus and their morphology and behavior. There's a key, too, so you can identify ants based on their morphology, assuming you ever feel like counting antennomeres or tarsal segments.
"journey to the ants" is a great book for anyone to check out
I wonder what will happen if they put that chemical into an insecticide spray.
Ants coming to bring you more dead ants. You will be the evil ant god.
The walking ants.
"I swear I'm not dead!"
"Yea we don't care, you smell dead and it's disgusting, leave until you take a bath"
why doesn't the ant that was sprayed on carry itself away.
It would be inappropriate for a dead ant to move.
They must
restlive in peace.fist time in earth history to get a day off
Moving means partly alive, but partly alive means mostly dead, so off you go!
What the hell happened to the ant? My god I dislike cliffhangers.
It says at the end. It hung out in the graveyard, then went back to work.
So It was all a convoluted plan to take a few days off, what a slacker!
First ant in the planet's history to get a day off