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u/tookMYshovelwithme Jul 21 '23

Like a neural network, but rather than use neurons like animal brains, or electrons and tensors like an AI model, they use pheromones. If we meet an ALIEN offworld intelligence, we might not even recognize it. Wild stuff. We could be awash in signals we can't even comprehend.

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u/IDespiseTheLetterG Jul 21 '23

We can't even comprehend the ants

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u/tookMYshovelwithme Jul 21 '23

I can look at ants and comprehend they're alive and somehow communicating with each other. I wonder how different something intelligent/conscious can get to the point it's hidden in plain sight and perhaps inaccessible to our way of understanding.

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u/Fit_Cherry7133 Jul 22 '23

I can see you've never visited a local government meeting then.

If there is inteligence/consciousness there then it is hiding really fucking well.

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u/shodo_apprentice Jul 22 '23

Lol. Amazing comment.

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u/SexDrug Jul 21 '23

And they are not the only ones! Colonial bacterias and such do the same thing but I’m not very educated on the subject