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According to Wikipedia's list of animals by the number of neurons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_by_number_of_neurons https://en.wikipedia.org/w

According to Wikipedia's list of animals by the number of neurons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_by_number_of_neurons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_by_number_of_n...), 800k is around the scale of a bee, or a cockroach. The smallest mammal on that list is the Little Free-Tailed Bat, with 35,000k. This feels like something helpful to use in beginning to calibrate one's thoughts about how much mind is capable of running on that many neurons.

muzani 3y ago
A human has 21B neurons. A house cat has around 250M. So let's draw the line around there.
- rcarmo 3y ago
  The cat appears to be much more efficient, given that it can farm out tasks to the human consistently.
- ls612 3y ago
  Humans have 85-100B neurons in the brain and another many more in the spine and other CNS bits.
blharr 3y ago
A biological neuron and an artificial neuron are also not the same.
- egypturnash 3y ago
  No, they are not. You'll notice I said that scale feels like it's useful for beginning to calibrate your thoughts about how much mind can run on any given number of neurons.