Post Az6PbZ6U5o3pC2bcuW by aziz@functional.cafe
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(DIR) Post #Az6PFZ1hhNluaDsY5Y by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-10-11T14:32:04Z
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Dreaming is an essential feature of intelligence. It seems that all creatures with memories and complex minds will dream. Many people are surprised to learn that bees and ants may dream. We have evidence of this based on micro-movements of their legs and antennae detected in sleep. RAM (Rapid Antennae Movement) sleep may be a counterpart to REM sleep. But, what about the mind of the colony? How can a whole colony of ants dream, if dreaming is essential for intelligence?1/2
(DIR) Post #Az6PN2a6DHOKGyX3Ts by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-10-11T14:33:25Z
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Could a computer network provide a way for collective dreaming? Could computer networks be the essential tool of the next level of colony intelligence?The ants will use the internet to dream. That is what I'm working on in the story today. 2/2
(DIR) Post #Az6PbZ6U5o3pC2bcuW by aziz@functional.cafe
2025-10-11T14:35:59Z
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@futurebird I am dreaming of a space where people draw on walls and that is recorded from begging to end, and replayed later for lurkers 😌
(DIR) Post #Az6T3rXTRZxUL9PmXQ by burnitdown@beige.party
2025-10-11T15:14:43Z
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@futurebird is it? there is no scientific definition of intelligence, so i'm not sure how you've come to that conclusion. it's a eugenics term, mainly. "consciousness" might be a better word, but nobody's certain about that either, and i would put a lot of suspicion on anyone who says otherwise.
(DIR) Post #Az6TmW34BvvWihU64m by burnitdown@beige.party
2025-10-11T15:22:49Z
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@futurebird we use the internet for collaborative thinking but i'm not sure that has got us anywhere good... *looking around at the state of the world*but no, computers can't replicate thought because computers don't think and are not anything like a biological brain. they are a calculation tool which has been around for fifteen seconds in terms of the time scale of evolution, and they don't even have the capabilities of single-cell organisms, nevermind a whole human person.
(DIR) Post #Az6kdjs57yXiCmkN0K by stevegis_ssg@mas.to
2025-10-11T18:31:42Z
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@futurebird I suspect that dreaming is more a function of brains (or possibly even nervous systems) than minds as such, so the analogy might not hold.But then maybe there's more and possibly even cooler analogy because dreaming is probably (?) a side effect of the neural processes subserving memory consolidation, and the group mind version of that in people would then be us telling each other stories. Stories are humanity collectively dreaming.…