Ant Hillary is (at least in DRH's fable) roughly comparable to a human brain. Clearly the level of integration is (almost certainly) looser - our neurons don't wander around, but maintain (more or less) fixed relationships to each other, at least on the timescale of holding a conversation (the brain is of course able to "rewire" itself on longer timescales), while ants aren't so constrained. But personally I can easily believe there might be "hive minds", maybe not on this planet but somewhere. One can imagine an isomorphism between neurons, or perhaps larger scale "processing cores", and some type of organisms that communicate by, say, radio - like the components of Hoyle's black cloud, for example.
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