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hardly intelligent to talk about a situation where a spider knows about
something and consciously develops a strategy from it. In that case, how
did the spider, which lives on ants and mimics them, come by the
counterfeit eyes on the side of its head? How did the spider manage to
"learn," "count," and "mimic?" What would have happened if it had not
had those false eyes? In that case, no matter how good a mimic the spider
was, the ants would identify it. If the ants realised the danger and reacted
before the spider did, then that would be the end of the spider. The ants
would kill the spider with their powerful jaws. As is obvious, it is not
enough for the spider to mimic ants, it also has to have those false eyes