Chapter 10: Wisdom and Sensibility

"There are probably more than a thousand ants in this area. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info”

The thousands of ants are constantly circling around this small area of land, and it feels like they are looking at a black tornado, which is the same as seeing a whirling typhoon cyclone on a weather forecast satellite cloud image.

"There was nothing in the center, no bodies, no food. ”

"Actually, this phenomenon is not so rare, of course, the average person who lives in the city does not have the opportunity to see it, because it only occurs in marching ants, which is called ant vortex. ”

It's like a whirlpool suddenly appears above the ocean.

"Marching ants have no eyes, and some of the worker ants responsible for detecting food guide the colony closer by leaving pheromone signals, and the ants behind follow the smell, constantly circling in the same place, and also leaving the smell, so this circle has become an unbreakable circle, and the latecomers keep blocking the road and can't go out, while the outsiders think they are moving along a road to find food. ”

This smell became heavier and heavier after a large number of ants passed by, so that the ants could not smell anything else here, so they had to choose to follow the team in front of them. ”

When you observe the ants, you will find that the path of the ants is not straight, and once the ants walk in a straight line, it is about to rain and they are moving.

But if it's not before the rain, they'll be running around, actually looking for food, but they have eyes.

Imagine what would happen if a marching ant accidentally spun around in place.

The answer is that after turning a circle, it smells the smell left by itself, and with the nervous reaction of the ant, it is impossible to remember that it is left by itself, so it continues to move along the inner circle of the smell, circle after circle, until it reaches the center of the circle, it is confused, and it turns in place.

But marching ants are social animals that come out in groups in search of food.

One ant falls into a ring trap that he has arranged, and then two ants, three of them, and finally ten, a hundred, until they all fall into the ring trap.

What does a lone marching ant feel when it is on the periphery? It may feel that its companion has found the carcass of a cow, and the smell is stronger than that of an ant's nest.

Won't ants wake up?

Yes, the worker ant will suddenly find that it can't find food here, and it will want to leave, but in a second, its simple nerves will feel a strong smell of pheromones, allowing it to automatically cut into another task of finding food.

Once caught in this death vortex, the colony of marching ants is dead.

"Unlike most ants, marching ants can't see and don't have nests, marching ants will constantly move in search of food, and the lead marching ant will leave traces for other buyers to follow, and once the first marching ant has a problem, the whole colony is finished. ”

As if to prove Fang Hong's argument, it rained in the sky.

This is Honduras, and the rain here is huge.

Fang Hong took out a waterproof tablecloth and covered it on his body.

The rain was pouring down, and the marching ants were still spinning in circles.

"It's a relief, most of the ants will die in the rain, and if there is no heavy rain, they will spin in a circle for a day or two until they die, and at the end of the day, even if they can't climb, they will continue to move on. ”

They will march on the corpses of their predecessors.

Just like humans, sometimes they think they are brave and go forward, but in fact they are at the source, and that is a mistake, and any social animal can encounter the same trap, but only marching ants and humans can come so badly.

"For hundreds of millions of years, this phenomenon has been staged countless times in the large colony of marching ants, and this phenomenon was first observed in 1936, when it was named the Ant Death Vortex, and there was no way out except death. ”

"The ending is already doomed, don't look at it. ”

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

Human beings are very strange creatures, and if humans see a cow die, they will not react at all, but when they see a social animal like ants die in such a way, they will feel sad from the bottom of their hearts, because humans are like this.

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

In modern philosophy, there is a term called the global brain, which means that the behavior and consciousness of all human beings in the world are fused together to form a real but undetectable consciousness, and that consciousness is the global brain.

A single person can never understand what the global brain is thinking, even if you are Albert Einstein.

When Einstein saw other physicists use his theory of relativity to deduce quantum mechanics, Einstein refused, believing that God would not do such a thing, and the famous saying that God does not throw dice. There are still 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 big fan of Newton, the first half of his life was a great physicist, the second half of his life was a theologian.

Every great scientist of all disciplines eventually becomes a philosopher, and further a theologian, trying to figure out what the global brain is thinking.

However, one cannot guess what the six billion people are thinking as a whole. It's like Nokia doesn't count everyone preferring Android.

The ant also can't think of the idea of the 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 predestined, and everyone's dreams are determined before you produce them.

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

The ancients said that fate, what does the word fate mean, fate refers to the nature endowed by nature, and fortune refers to the poor changes in all stages of life.

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

"There are certain factors in human nature that make the human leader keep falling into a whirlpool, and everyone is like an ant, constantly spinning. ”

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

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

"In the heavy rain, what we see is not the ants that behave strangely in the ant colony, but the thinking fireworks of the history of biological evolution for more than a billion years, but this is a wrong firework, wisdom will be problematic, if it happens to a person, we call this a brain pit. "World War I, World War II were all discovered by the Industrial Revolution, the steam engine led to World War I, the internal combustion engine led to World War II, maybe the development of artificial intelligence and the Internet will lead to World War III.

"Although man is like an ant, but we have differences, after the last millions of years of evolution, human beings have produced a different organ from ordinary creatures, the frontal lobe of the brain, we often hear in biology class that the brain is composed of two halves, but in fact it is not, the composition of the brain is the lizard brain and the frontal lobe, more than 100 million years ago, the dinosaur brain was less than ours one frontal lobe. This frontal lobe is the source of our perceptual knowledge, the source of our emotions and emotional intelligence, and I have never admired a person with a good memory and rational thinking, because a certain historically dead dinosaur may be smarter than him. I like people with high emotional intelligence because the emotional intelligence of those people changes the world. ”

The world does not change by IQ, it is changed by emotional intelligence.

It's like, words don't change the world, poetry doesn't change the world, drawings don't change the world, painting changes, music doesn't change the world, music does.

"You know, everyone who likes to watch movies, listen to music, appreciate paintings, calligraphy, and read novels has higher emotional intelligence than others, because we only have more meaningful behaviors than ants. ”

"So, watch a live broadcast and watch a novel, and see it as a higher creature?"

"When I heard Brother Gun say this, I was very fluttering. ”

Don't be so good at expressing your intelligence, to find the beauty of the world, instead of showing your intelligence, to be more civilized.