[daxfohl]

True, and this even happens in a brain the size of a flea's.

Which makes one wonder, what is it that makes processing and reconciling millions of visual signals per second "easy", but reasoning through a simple sudoku near impossible?

[stevenwoo]

Are you sure about fleas? I thought we know this does not happen with frogs as far as we can tell https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.803/pdf/lettvin.pdf

[daxfohl]

Oh. No, not sure.

[stevenwoo]

I do not know how many times that frog type experiment has been repeated on other species or branches of animal life but that one study up ended my preconceived notion of how vision could work with a brain, and most insects have a tiny brain, speculatively may be possible only of certain automaton type tasks, though wasps IIRC have very small brains relative to other insects but exhibit social behavior so who knows.