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Bumblebees at Queen Mary University of London kept rolling tiny wooden balls with no reward, no training, and no obvious purpose. Researchers tried every alternative explanation before landing on the one they…
A creature with a million neurons rolling wooden balls for no reason forces a question scientists have spent decades avoiding: what happens when the mechanical explanation stops being the simplest one?
It is tempting to either romanticize the finding as evidence of tiny joy or dismiss it as anthropomorphism, but both moves let us off the hook of what the data actually shows.
Our confidence that small nervous systems cannot support inner experience was built on convenience, not evidence, and a jar of bees rolling balls is one of the quieter demolitions of that assumption.
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