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Bruce Sterling
Nov 19, 2019 11:15 AM

Insect consciousness

*Without trying to get all pan-psychic about it, bees have kind of a lot of symptoms of mindful awareness, such as dancing at night and tacking recreational drugs.

No really, I'm not saying it, these entomologists are

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