[op03]

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.

[jeremybms]

I 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

Or half of a fruit fly brain that has been more fully reconstructed:

https://www.janelia.org/project-team/flyem/hemibrain

[BenoitP]

They 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.