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You can basically think of insects like this as organic ASICs. Input in, output out. It's a biological circuit that just has a raw response that's hardcoded in.
by fsn4dN69ey 2y ago
You can basically think of insects like this as organic ASICs. Input in, output out. It's a biological circuit that just has a raw response that's hardcoded in. Kind of like asking how does a computer know to do "MOV". It's baked in to the circuit. Do trial and error trillions of times and some of the circuits end up functioning and survive.
- mech422 2y agoIt just seems like a lot of behaviors are closer to full blown programs rather than a single instruction :-) And the more complex the behavior the more it blows my mind :-D Thanks! Thanks for the link below - it was pretty neat :-D
- fsn4dN69ey 2y agoYeah, the depth of biology is insane. You can even look closer to home - humans have built in visual mappings for specific shapes. https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-math-theory-for-why-people-hallucinate-20180730/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-math-theory-for-why-people-...