the living dead

I think a living human who smelled like a rotting corpse would be forced to go away from other people too.

Was this a House episode?
Probably not getting buried, though.
Probably.
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.
- Or be nominated a Secretary of Health and Human Services.

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!!.

Depends on the human. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotard%27s_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?
- I googled "human thinks he's dead" and that Wikipedia page was the first result
- 🤷‍♂️
- Pretty much the whole Internet got worse in the last decade. Search engines are a pain to use nowadays.
- 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
- seems like it might be skill issue in this case. a Google search for "medical condition person thinks they're dead" gave it immediately
- 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.
- Honestly while I don't like the AI searches, this instance maybe skill issue. Brain fart or smth
Rookie move.
- Love me some pictures for sad children

"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.

because we follow a hierarchical pecking order.
Not the anarchists
- My ex would say, "that rules like anarchy." Cute.
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.
- The source is racism: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-complicated-legacy-of-e-o-wilson/
Sounds like propaganda tbh
Lions are eusocial

smells itself

eh I guess I died....

You have a spray bottle of oleic acid

Who do you spray: Trump, JD Vance, RFK jr or Caroline Leavitt

E.O. Wilson is a monster scientist. His book "The Ants" is mind-bogglingly thorough

Also, Social Conquest of Earth.
E.O. Wilson is my hero. More people should study his work for how to approach science. Passion and curiosity got him everywhere.
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.
- "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.
- "journey to the ants" is a great book for anyone to check out