[kodz4]

Ants don't meet at the bar at the end of the day to chill with each other. It isn't necessary. And their society isn't unraveling.

The more connected the human ant hill gets the more we will behave like ants. Disconnected because we don't need to be as connected. Connected because that is the only way to survive. Those that can't handle the change...wont. This is a process of societal metamorphosis whose tracks have already been laid.

[defterGoose]

I don't disagree with you that there are meaningful analogies between humans and animals. But we are much closer evolutionarily to dogs, and dogs definitely need to wrestle in the den at the end of the day. I don't believe there are panaceas for societal evolution to be found in synthetic technological networks. Though I'll be interested to see where neuralink has gotten in 20 years.

[blablabla123]

Yeah but Ants cannot drink out of glasses. ;) I think never in history it has been possible to act as individually while still being embedded in an ant hill.

[YinglingLight]

Edgy, but humans are social creatures. Civilization was built upon tight knit communities. Tight knit communities were built upon the family unit.

[Smithalicious]

You have shown me the light. From now on I will commit to the healthier lifestyle of absolute loyalty to the Queen, communicating primarily through chemical signals and lifting many times my body weight.

[throwaway3627]

Two ants walk into a bar...

Maybe they do and we just don't know it? (anthropocentrism)

[AdrianB1]

I think the ant brain and the human brain are extremely different. I bet the ants are not capable of feeling loneliness, they don't have enough neurons for that.

[kodz4]

That's true. Maybe we are going through a transition where we shed some :) There is lots of evidence for it.