I'm kind of struggling to write about this (fictional) ant colony.
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I'm kind of struggling to write about this (fictional) ant colony. I think "they can't have a stream of consciousness" because that's just not how they think. It's all tiny individual impulses adding up to complexity.
Writing about individual ants is also hard because they don't see the whole picture.
I will figure this out, though.
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I'm kind of struggling to write about this (fictional) ant colony. I think "they can't have a stream of consciousness" because that's just not how they think. It's all tiny individual impulses adding up to complexity.
Writing about individual ants is also hard because they don't see the whole picture.
I will figure this out, though.
I mean.
Maybe I need to go hard and make it really strange. Just lists of tasks marked complete or incomplete and totals of the ants involved.
Now that might work. Eg.
Soil Removal South. COMPLETE (384 ants)
Exploration of Spaces North: IN PROGRESS (14 ants)
Human Removal: PAUSED (1384 ants)etc.
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I mean.
Maybe I need to go hard and make it really strange. Just lists of tasks marked complete or incomplete and totals of the ants involved.
Now that might work. Eg.
Soil Removal South. COMPLETE (384 ants)
Exploration of Spaces North: IN PROGRESS (14 ants)
Human Removal: PAUSED (1384 ants)etc.
@futurebird The Human Removal one makes me think their planning department made an error in target analysis. They had previously observed that it only took ~20 ants to effectuate the removal of a human from a bed pillow, or a plate of pie. But to relocate an unconscious human requires ~20,000 ants. They should have hired me.
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I'm kind of struggling to write about this (fictional) ant colony. I think "they can't have a stream of consciousness" because that's just not how they think. It's all tiny individual impulses adding up to complexity.
Writing about individual ants is also hard because they don't see the whole picture.
I will figure this out, though.
@futurebird technically the story of the four hobbits and thier companions wasn't written in English; it was written Westron, the language the hobbits spoke. Tolkien had to translate it. Your story was written in ant thoughts, but you must translate it for human readers.
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I mean.
Maybe I need to go hard and make it really strange. Just lists of tasks marked complete or incomplete and totals of the ants involved.
Now that might work. Eg.
Soil Removal South. COMPLETE (384 ants)
Exploration of Spaces North: IN PROGRESS (14 ants)
Human Removal: PAUSED (1384 ants)etc.
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@futurebird I would buy this book.
You may get the chance this summer
