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Re:How insects like bumblebees do so much with tiny brains by throwitawayday on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @10:13AM (#13471903)
On eyes in general: the retina is not like a camera pixel array, rather, it extracts all kinds of features and detects motion:

"Eye smarter than scientists believed: neural computations in circuits of the retina." Gollisch, Tim, and Markus Meister. Neuron 65.2 (2010): 150-164.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627309...

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Re:How insects like bumblebees do so much with tiny brains by antognini on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @12:54PM (#13473704)
Yes. The retina is not so much a part of the eye as an extension of the brain into the eye.
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Re:How insects like bumblebees do so much with tiny brains by andai on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @06:34AM (#13480565)
They say the eyes are the window into the soul, but really we're just looking at each other's brains!
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