A great piece from the blog of Kevin Kelly of Wired - thanks to Jon Howard of Living Brands for this link.

The point he makes is that ants and a whole lot of other species actually exhibit intelligent behaviour. Which humans mostly ignore because we privilege the kind of intelligence we most easily identify and rate - our own. Actually ants are a lost smarter because they only have 100,000 neurons each. There's a lesson here for us. Don't try to get smarter. Figure out how to distribute your intelligence around more. You really don't need more in one place - you need to share it around. That's waggledancer thinking.