We might extrapolate the ant's reality with our own and see what it tells us.

For instance, the ant is dragging that hunk of food back to the nest, rather than just sitting there and eating its fill, because it exists as part of a hive mind and pulling stuff back to the colony is as instinctive as our hand bringing food to our mouth.

We too function as a hive. While our current belief system is all about individualism, atomism, objectivism, etc, the fact is that humans have climbed to the top of the hill/food chain/terrestrial hierarchy entirely based on our abilities to work together. We are not the lions, tigers, bears, or even the mastodons. We are the packs of ground apes, who went from swinging from branches, to throwing sticks.

Much of our focus on individualism isn't about surviving as lone organisms in the wild, but climbing up our social hierarchies.

We get wrapped up in belief systems/tribes/religions/ideologies, not because they are logical/intelligent, but because they are what the group coalesces around.

So if we want to understand, not so much super intelligence, but super organisms, we would not do better than study ourselves.

The organism is synchronization.

The ecosystem is harmonization.

As for the metaphysical, I remember as a child, laying on the porch, watching this ant, when it stopped, like it sensed my presence. Then I saw this tiny cone of awareness, waving around with its antennae. It's an ability that has only increased. Other people call them "floaters" and think it's just glitches in the vision, but I've gotten fairly good at tracking them down to the sources. Driving is where it is most evident, since we all are focused on the space in front of us.

Think how much information those little flat devices in our pockets can transmit in a little bit of radio waves, while we are awash in such waves, from the light to the surfaces we connect with. Letting the deep mind read them and not impose those cultural belief systems on them, is the real trick.