19 May 2026
A solitary ant, afield, cannot be considered to have much of anything on his mind; indeed, with only a few neurons strung together by fibers, he can't be imagined to have a mind at all, much less a thought. He is more like a ganglion on legs. Four ants together, or ten, depending on the size of the group, begin to behave like an independent animal. The hill is a beast.
The Lives of a Cell