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Man's vanity refuses to be acknowledged
Intelligent animal...

Even the amoeba was not devoid of awareness
⏺Even fish have yolk and marrow...!

It was seven in the morning.
I was on my way to go out to work. At the garden door I stopped. Because I noticed something worth noting. A hole in the garden ground being dug by a number of ants. I did not know how many it was. I saw ten ants, and the rest were hidden in rags, deep in the ground. This rag was not here yesterday, and it was not ants, for I was tending the garden in this same place the evening before.

- In ants there is understanding, appreciation and management

What the ants took out of the ground were grains of sand, and they made a pile, or rather several piles, around the door of the rags. I looked at these grains and was amazed at their cleanliness. I looked at the piles, how they were approximately equal in size, and how they were evenly distributed on the surface of the ground around the holes, and I was astonished by their levelness and regularity.

I looked at the ants individually. This is an ant emerging from the rags, and in her mouth is a grain of sand that is undoubtedly heavier than hers. Then she throws it onto the ground and returns to collect more. This one, then another, does the same thing. One of them places her pill on an unfinished pile. I waited until this pile was completed, according to my belief, nearly equal in size to its sisters, and wherever it turned it faced a large pile. She refuses to make the big one bigger. Were you afraid that this large pile would collapse and block the door of rags for the ants? I don't know ! But what I know is that the ant circled around with its seed and did not land with it except on me, and then I found the ant passing over it and landing with grains of sand in the simple, empty ground behind it. An ant carried a grain and ran around with it, looking for a place to throw it. Her luck is a simple, empty land.

- When did the ants wake up to dig?

The ants worked to dig their house, the winter house, in
An astonishing silence, and an astonishing perseverance.

I took out my watch to count how many fine grains of sand the ants extract. I estimated approximately how many pills. He went out onto the ground, then how many minutes had he worked and calculated that he must have spent between one and two hours on his work. I wonder if he had started working with the first rays of the morning?

He started it while it was freezing cold. It was winter, and its signs heralded its arrival.

- Every house has an engineer

I wish I had eyesight to penetrate the ground, and see what the ants are digging, and what is happening between the ants, in their stomachs, how they dig. Digging like this requires cooperation, so I wish I knew how ants cooperate. The house above the ground must have engineering, as does the house that is in the depths of the earth. It occurred to me that with cooperation, there must be someone among the ants who is an engineer, who estimates the length of the tunnel to the house, and its width, so that it can accommodate the ants and accommodate the sustenance they may carry. The house itself is so narrow and so small.

- How ants are like men!

The sand reminded me of men digging a tunnel underground.
Every man carries a basket. It enters the belly of the earth and fills it with dust, then it comes out. Around the tunnel door, dirt is piled up. He returns from where he came to carry new dirt. The men work silently in one line inside and one outside.

I said, “How similar ants are to men!” Rather, men are like ants! Because I did not know which one was the authentic one and which one was the imitation.

Ants, like men, work for their tomorrow.

I mentioned the goal.
I said: These working men are working for a purpose, which is to make a tunnel. I said that these ants are undoubtedly working for a purpose, which is to build a house like a tunnel.
Men work today for their tomorrow.
Ants work from day to day.

- Between instinct and intelligence

I mentioned this to my friend. He said: Ants work by instinct. As for men, they work with intelligence, acumen, and reason.
I asked him: What is instinct?
He said: Unconscious acumen.
I asked him: What is intelligence?
He said: Attentive and aware.
I said: So the ant enters the rag and carries a seed
Sand, then she went out looking for a place far from the door of the breach so that it would not be crowded, then she came back and came back. Then it works when the ants work, and stops when they stop, and all of this is unconsciously?!

My friend said: Rather, it is a tiny awareness that is barely mentioned. I returned to myself and emphasized the meaning of intelligence and the meaning of awareness, which are divided among all living creatures into sections of similar type - they are a certain intelligence and they are a certain consciousness - but they are different in amount.

- Human arrogance

And I returned to myself, confirming human arrogance, that
The person who refuses, because the one who has intelligence often turns into stupidity, and the one who has awareness often turns into heedlessness, refuses to acknowledge his intelligence to other living people.

Man sought help from language, delving into his arrogance, and became so
What is in animals is called instinct, and what is in man is called intelligence. This is an old trick people use. If they want to confirm a difference between two long-debated meanings, they give one of them a name and call the other something else. Generation after generation comes and learns the language, and the language teaches them by force that one thing in reality is two things, and he grows up on this, and he is aware, unaware of what
Language was created by him, but it was not sealed by his thought.

(How) and (How much)

Ants have intelligence, there is no doubt about this....and they have awareness
There is no doubt about this.
Men have intelligence and awareness, and there is no need to confirm this.

(This dog learned not to enter except through a door, and to ring the bell.)

There is a difference between the two intelligences. There is a difference between the two consciousnesses. But these (different) does not indicate a difference in type. It indicates a difference in quantity, not a difference in how.

But the amount often varies greatly in things, deceiving a person, so that he is unable to see - despite the huge difference in amount - that the type is one!

This is a summary of the issue of the ant and the man in terms of intelligence
And acumen.

And you may descend from the ant, on the ladder of living things, to something lower. Do not miss the glimpse of intelligence.. Even the distressed person has intelligence, to some extent. It works, it eats, and it reproduces. When he panics, he defends himself. He often feels defeated and quickly retreats, fortifies himself, or prepares for another incident.

(Even horses accept learning)

(Elephants, in your secret, in roles that only humans can do well)

And you may rise above the ants, on the ladder of living things, to something higher. You will find intelligence more, and awareness clearer, to the point that when you reach the human being, you will say, “Here is the goal of intelligence, and here is the goal of awareness!”