A0433: How do ants organise themselves?

This is a very good question and we are happy to describe to you how ants are able to accomplish what you have heard about them. First we must explain that ants are also inhabited, but like almost all lower beings on your planets, they share a mass consciousness. A mass consciousness is created when many spiritual beings agree to provide a partial consciousness of themselves. If many spiritual beings decouple a small part of their consciousness, then the symbiosis of the decoupled partial consciousnesses results in a completely new consciousness, so that it is determined what this mass consciousness is to be used for. The consciousnesses of the spiritual beings are transformed for the time of use in the mass consciousness by the symbiosis, so that the consciousnesses no longer correspond to the consciousness of the original being, but the purpose of the mass consciousness forms the new consciousness. When the given time has elapsed in which the being has made its partial consciousness available, then the consciousness parts return unharmed to the original spiritual being. We will explain this process in more detail another time, so that all that seems important now is that spiritual beings voluntarily make a small part of their consciousness available to these mass consciousnesses, and that after a long time they receive back their portions of consciousness.
If a mass consciousness is now invented, then the Wingmaker once again had an idea, for a bodily life, so that this life can also be inhabited. When the Wingmaker thought about the kind of insects, there were already mass consciousnesses, so that the mass consciousness was not first thought up with the ant, but the concept of it was taken over and adapted. When an ant is born, it already knows everything it needs to live its life as an ant. When ants communicate, a lot of information is exchanged through mass consciousness, so there is no real communication as you currently assume. Ants do not necessarily have to exchange information because there are nodes in their mass consciousness that direct the other consciousnesses of the ants. What do we mean by that, we ask? Imagine the mass consciousness like a big network, with the top node being the queens and the further down it goes, the more ants represent these individual layers and all the layers are connected by nodes, always going in the down direction, so you can imagine a pyramid where the top node is the top and each layer is connected by nodes. If an ant discovers something on the bottom layer, then the information is sent to the next node and the lower layer will process the information. The information does not have to be passed on to the top of the pyramid, but the consciousnesses on the layer decide what to do with the information.
If the information is to trigger an action of the lower layers, then the nodes are selected at which the subordinate ants are to take action. In this concept, the ants correspond to a consciousness share on a layer of the pyramid. If many consciousnesses are represented under a node, then many ants must share a certain number of consciousnesses. When the node above the ants wants something done, it simply sends the information to the collected consciousness below it and the ants below will perform the action. If there are many consciousnesses, then many ants could also share these shares, but this is not so because at least several consciousnesses are needed for an ant to also act as it should.
The ants organise themselves independently under this node so that they complete a task together, but they are also able to carry out the action alone. However, the direct mental entanglement of the group ensures that they do everything together, even if they could do it alone. The mental entanglement is used to make all the ants in the group under that node evaluate a task together. We have already told you that you are made up of innumerable consciousnesses and that even a single consciousness is you as a person, so a single consciousness would evaluate a task in the same way as you would evaluate it with all your consciousnesses. The single consciousness would just be much slower in evaluating the task, but it would come to the same conclusion as you would with all your consciousnesses. When ants share a few consciousnesses, they come to the conclusion of how to solve a task much more quickly than if only one ant were to consider it. They are mentally intertwined with their consciousnesses, so together they arrive at the solution much faster. Since they share the same consciousness, they will also never disagree, so they can solve their task quickly and efficiently.
So who are these nodes, you may ask, and we will tell you. The nodes are the queen of the ants, so that as each ant is born, it acquires a greater and greater consciousness. The overall consciousness grows with the size of the ant colony and the queen actually delegates her ant state all by herself and each individual ant helps the queen organise her state. When a queen dies, the ants will still continue to exist in their groups, but after some time the flow of information will dry up because there are no more nodes, so the ant colony dies.
We will talk about mass consciousness several more times, because there are also technologically advanced species that share such a mass consciousness, so you will not only understand how lower life forms organise themselves with you on Earth, but how species organise themselves that are centuries ahead of you. There are human-like beings who share a kind of mass consciousness that will be of importance to you because you will also come into contact with such species after official first contact.