Frank - > I was just outside sawing up dead branches. I noticed a large ant > struggling to carry a piece of vegetation larger than it was over > obstacles in a general direction which did not change notwithstanding > the obstacles. It was very hard not to feel the ant's intentionality > and determination. I was experiencing the ant as the ant. Extreme > empathy.
Just reading this made my jaws (mandibles) ache (horizontally)! But I couldn't really image the third pair of appendages (middle for me, between my hind/forelimbs) helping me struggle. But I did have a (likely highly mistargeted) olphactory analog of pheremone trails/fields in that image. It came through more as a taste than a smell. And as the ant, did you have any apprehension of that *huge* mammal dragging dead branches around and waving a saw? - Steve .-. .- -. -.. --- -- -..-. -.. --- - ... -..-. .- -. -.. -..-. -.. .- ... .... . ... FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/
