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Letter: Ants can teach us on consciousness

Published 28 September 2016

From Liz O'Neill

I suggest that the observations of Eciton army ants (10 September, p 29) showing complex emergent behaviour built on individual responses to simpler sensory inputs go a long way to explain human consciousness. Recent articles in Âé¶¹´«Ã½ have gone to great lengths to explore human consciousness and whether other animals have it. I sometimes feel some would love to find some wondrous entity pulling levers in our brains: the explanation is in reality far simpler.

Whitland, Carmarthenshire, UK

Issue no. 3093 published 1 October 2016

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