That's fair, although it's also worth noting we share quite little in terms of neural architecture with even the smartest of insects, and our brains differ in n

That's fair, although it's also worth noting we share quite little in terms of neural architecture with even the smartest of insects, and our brains differ in neuron count by something like six orders of magnitude - I don't know of any insect with as many as one million neurons, most being around the 50-150k range, while human brains weigh in at around a hundred billion. That said, to take this as prima facie evidence that insects are meat robots, the way behaviorists like to do, strikes me purely as motivated reasoning. There's no basis for it - no one yet has established an objective mapping between brain size or complexity and behavioral complexity, nor does this seem likely to happen soon. Ethologists, by contrast with behaviorists, spend most of their research time observing live, active animals in their own accustomed habitats - Jane Goodall, as opposed to that pervo freak Skinner - and it's no accident that all the really interesting results, from individual recognition by facial features in polistids to the likely range and spread of V. mandarinia in the Nearctic, are coming from biologists who take an ethological approach.