Do you think small animals such as Ants know about space? or have any idea how big the world is? and do they experience time like us?
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i think pretty much anything with some kind of nerve system is capable of awareness, but i doubt an ant is capable of any kind of abstract thought or emotion. it's world probably only revolves around the survival of the colony, and it probably has no conception of time. i may be giving them less credit than they deserve, however, because i have never been an ant.
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I don't know if an ant could have a concept of time, but I have heard comments that the shorter an animal's lifespan, the slower time seems to go for it. This was in an article comparing an animal sense of time passing to a human's. For instance, (the article said) a fly can almost always dodge a flyswatter because, to the fly, the flyswatter is moving in super-slow-motion, so it has time to spring out of the way. A human's perception of time changes throughout his/her life. When you're a kid, an hour last forever, because you haven't lived that many hours, so one hour is a big fraction of the time you've been alive. When you're an adult, one hour is a lot smaller fraction of the time you've been alive, and you conceive of it as passing faster than a kid does. Thinking about this in relation to the fly makes me wonder if the fly's short life makes each moment seem to last longer for the fly than it would for a human. Just guessing...
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