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Does anyone know how big an ant or butterfly's brain is? They do things that are pretty mindblowing in my book with those spec of dust sized brains.
by op03 5y ago
Does anyone know how big an ant or butterfly's brain is? They do things that are pretty mindblowing in my book with those spec of dust sized brains.
- BenoitP 5y agoThey do! But their lifespan is way shorter and their number is way higher; which means way more feedback from darwinistic evolution. To me it means their 'intelligent' behavior should be much more a function of being hardcoded in the neuron layout at the genetic level than being in a generic intelligent meat processor at an emergent level. Much like ASICs vs CPUs.
- jeremybms 5y agoI think ants may have similar brain size to fruit flys, which we have previously reconstructed. I'm not sure about the butterfly. You can check out a complete fruit fly brain here: https://fafb-ffn1.storage.googleapis.com/landing.html https://fafb-ffn1.storage.googleapis.com/landing.html Or half of a fruit fly brain that has been more fully reconstructed: https://www.janelia.org/project-team/flyem/hemibrain https://www.janelia.org/project-team/flyem/hemibrain