Vladimir_Golovin comments on For fiction: How could alien minds differ from human minds? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_Golovin 21 August 2011 03:52:36PM *  7 points [-]

Look into eusocial animals, e.g. ants, bees, wasps, termites, and naked mole rats. Intelligent minds of similar evolutionary origin would be very different from ours.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 22 August 2011 01:28:53AM 6 points [-]

That depends on whether they're intelligent on an individual or a hive level. After all, we are in a sense eusocial collections of cells.