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Don't fall into this nihilistic bullshit, if humans weren't capable of learning we wouldn't be here in the first place. This narrative isn't true and doesn't help. It's all invented by religions of old to better control humanity, and it wasn't true then and isn't true now
Do bees learn? Like how to deal with mites? Or do they just die off every 45 days and only get replaced by bees who accidentally happen to be a little better at dealing with mites?
I am not an expert on insectology or beeology, I don't actually know do they learn or not. An emergent entity of a hive seems to be learning better than the individual insect, but we're learning so much about them even now, I don't feel comfortable to make any speculations.
I know about mammals a bit more, and know that humans do learn, but the hive mind learning works worse than in hiving insects.