Could you imagine the confusion if you are used to it though… you’ve considered this scent to mean dead your whole life. would be kind of like as a human noticing your heart isn’t beating, your skin is pale… realizing you are in a coffin and everyone’s performing a service… hmm… guess I am dead. course I guess that’s kind of the difference is humans aren’t so accepting of things. we could be unable to move, realize we are looking from the perspective of our head, which is on the ground 2’ away from the rest of our body and our first thought would be, "Hey can you hear me? Hello!!.
the living dead
Submitted 5 weeks ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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TheFogan@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
Depends on the human. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotard's_syndrome
Side note: I am furious that I wasn’t able to find the name of this syndrome without ChatGPT. Is this a skill issue or are traditional search engines (in this case DuckDuckGo) just completely useless now?
Randomocity@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
I googled “human thinks he’s dead” and that Wikipedia page was the first result
Tithen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
knatschus@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
Pretty much the whole Internet got worse in the last decade. Search engines are a pain to use nowadays.
match@pawb.social 5 weeks ago
duckduckgo has become pretty worthless for search, ecosia is slightly better i think but without the privacy benefits. i have a local llm running in koboldcpp that i use if i really need to just bounce words off something while it nods along
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
seems like it might be skill issue in this case. a Google search for “medical condition person thinks they’re dead” gave it immediately
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Traditional search engines are fucking garbage lately. You search for two words and it gives you generic results for whichever’s more popular. Or it decides a brief phrase, however generic, must mean exactly one thing, so you only see results related to a song by that title.
Dasus@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Honestly while I don’t like the AI searches, this instance maybe skill issue. Brain fart or smth
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
“Ed Wilson”
More commonly known as E. O. Wilson in his publications. Highly important scientist. Postulated that humans are eusocial creatures similar to ants, termites, seahorses, and naked mole rats because we follow a hierarchical pecking order.
Read his book “The Social Conquest of Earth” if this intrigues you.
Genius@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
because we follow a hierarchical pecking order.
Not the anarchists
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
My ex would say, “that rules like anarchy.” Cute.
emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Postulated that humans are eusocial creatures similar to ants, termites, seahorses, and naked mole rats because we follow a hierarchical pecking order.
Source? Eusociality does not involve any sort of ‘hierarchical pecking order’. The requirements are co-operative childcare, overlapping generations and division of labour.
earthquake@piefed.social 5 weeks ago
The source is racism: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-complicated-legacy-of-e-o-wilson/
Fleur_@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Lions are eusocial
iAvicenna@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
smells itself
eh I guess I died…
moseschrute@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
You have a spray bottle of oleic acid
Who do you spray: Trump, JD Vance, RFK jr
PartyAt15thAndSummit@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
For humans, I heard it say to use butyric acid.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 5 weeks ago
RFK jr because funny
moseschrute@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
Yeah be he’s already half dead
protist@mander.xyz 5 weeks ago
E.O. Wilson is a monster scientist. His book “The Ants” is mind-bogglingly thorough
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Also, Social Conquest of Earth.
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
E.O. Wilson is my hero. More people should study his work for how to approach science. Passion and curiosity got him everywhere.
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 5 weeks ago
Well damn. I wasn’t expecting to be adding a new book to my reading list as a result of this thread, but y’all’s enthusiasm is such that I feel I have to.
protist@mander.xyz 5 weeks ago
“The Ants” isn’t casual reading, it’s a dense compendium of everything known about ants, covering every known genus and their morphology and behavior. There’s a key, too, so you can identify ants based on their morphology, assuming you ever feel like counting antennomeres or tarsal segments.
sqw@lemmy.sdf.org 5 weeks ago
“journey to the ants” is a great book for anyone to check out
scytale@piefed.zip 5 weeks ago
I wonder what will happen if they put that chemical into an insecticide spray.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
Ants coming to bring you more dead ants. You will be the evil ant god.
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
The walking ants.
Litebit@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
why doesn’t the ant that was sprayed on carry itself away.
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
It would be inappropriate for a dead ant to move.
cicadagen@ani.social 5 weeks ago
They must
restlive in peace.
piranhaconda@mander.xyz 5 weeks ago
“I swear I’m not dead!”
“Yea we don’t care, you smell dead and it’s disgusting, leave until you take a bath”
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
fist and in earth history to get a day off
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Still moving means partly alive, but partly alive means mostly dead!
arsCynic@beehaw.org 5 weeks ago
What the hell happened to the ant. My goodness I dislike cliffhangers.
Dadifer@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
It says at the end. It hung out in the graveyard, then went back to work.
ICastFist@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
So It was all a convoluted plan to take a few days off, what a slacker!
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
I think a living human who smelled like a rotting corpse would be forced to go away from other people too.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
Was this a House episode?
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Probably not getting buried, though.
Probably.
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 5 weeks ago
In a lot of places in the US, a living human who smelled like a rotting corpse is going to catch 2 to the head.
Rusty@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
Or be nominated a Secretary of Health and Human Services.