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Just checked wikipedia page... they have like 100K neurons only.. wtf!!! How can nature cramp all senses, including spatial, motion, life maintenance and genera
by freakynit 1mo ago
Just checked wikipedia page... they have like 100K neurons only.. wtf!!! How can nature cramp all senses, including spatial, motion, life maintenance and general thinking into just 100K neurons?
- levocardia 1mo agoA lot of the low level stuff is outsourced to biochemistry: the physical properties of proteins, and the various self-regulating biochemical systems of an animal, can "encode" a lot of intelligence, easing up on the computational demands of the brain proper.
- freakynit 1mo agoHmm... is there something that can estimate how many bits of information in portia, each neuron+synapse combination might be encoding?
- madaxe_again 1mo ago100k is already a lot. Plenty of insects get by with a couple of thousand, and pack a whole bunch of complex behaviour, including flight, into that.