Re:How the octopus got its smarts
by Griffinsauce on Friday September 21, 2018 @12:42PM
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Well, our massive brain needs a pretty massive support system. There's probably a lower threshold to how efficient you can be at achieving the same level of intelligence.
If [most] life begins at the microscopic scale, wouldn't there be a higher chance of intelligence developing at much smaller sizes than the average human body?
Have we even learned if there's a minimum body size required for sapient intelligence to develop?
We can already see different types of intelligence in comparatively-small creatures like octopuses, but even overlooked organisms as tiny as the ant show forms of intelligence! Social communication, tool usage, agriculture, even domestication of other species (e.g. aphids.)