On 4/25/07, Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (...)
When people bulldozer jungle to build an air-conditioned mall they rarely think about talking to the ants. The ants still notice, and die.
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But are ants able to infer that it was a bulldozer and not, say, a strong wind or landslide that flattened their jungle? (And the thing gets trickier if we postulate religious ants. For them both bulldozers and landslides would be seen as acts of gods. In other words, they would take for granted a world already governed by "post-ant-singularity" beings. :) ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=4007604&user_secret=8eb45b07
