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The Complexity of Numbers
Three ants don't make a colony. But 25 ants do because if you buy an ant colony back in my day from the back of a comic book, then they dig tunnels,. They have a little cemetery where they put the bodies of dead Ants start to lose that complexity as they die off. If you have 250 ants, it's way more complex. And if you have 25,000 ants, it’s way more complicated. In human terms, a village is not a city, it's not a Megalopolis. But the same mathematics describes them.