They are indeed sentient. If you saw the movie Antz then you'd see that the princess ant fell in love with a worker-ant (a forbidden love), therefore proving a high degree of, not only self consciousness, but class consciousness.
Mike --- On Mon, 22/12/08, Karin Machado <[email protected]> wrote: From: Karin Machado <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Zen] Nature? To: [email protected] Date: Monday, 22 December, 2008, 2:25 PM Edgar Owen All living organisms have intelligence necessary to survive within their particular environments. Otherwise they would have become extinct.> Pure genetic programming which is the mindless robotic survival instinct of insects does NOT translate to sentient being. Insects are not self-aware, therefore they are not sentient.
