After I watched the interview with Professor Edward O. Wilson, there are two parts I’d like to talk about. First of all, Professor Wilson said, “recognizing that any event, small or large, can change the direction of our thinking, even the way we think... means that we have what is thought of intuitively at the level of consciousness -- full consciousness --- intuitively, as free will.” By definition, free will is the putative ability of agents to make choices free from certain kinds of constraints. Using the example from Professor Wilson, there are some companies use the events to get more consumers, distributors, and so on. The main idea they use this kinds meeting or events is because people might be influenced by the atmosphere. The meeting somehow can change people mind, indirectly change people action that achieves the companies’ goal.
Secondly, I believe long time ago, there were nobody would believe ants have their own society which is called superorganism. That’s interesting Professor Wilson has dedicated on this issue for a long time. According to the interview, Professor Wilson said”Yes. We are now just finishing up a book called "The Superorganism" which makes that point that says, "Look, organism we can understand well enough. We can understand the interaction of whole organism because we can see them and we can do experiments in the laboratory and move it along so quickly and furthermore the processes themselves are relatively simple ... feramone, chemical language by which the ants and bees communicate, relatively easy to understand.” Ants, bees, and corals they all have their all colony which make a huge society. For example, they divide labors and cooperation to work separately which is really like our human beings.
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