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Re:The first wiring map of an insect's brain hints at incred... by Fohesk on Thursday March 09, 2023 @11:48PM (#35090499)
Thinking of ants, maybe they make up the low count with their massive colony hive minds.

Back in the day when social media was being seeded everyone would talk about multiplyung value for every person added. And there would be arguments about how large it can get before value drops off due to the Dunbar number etc. Since insect brains have been around much longer than our chimp brains maybe they are more optimised.

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Re:The first wiring map of an insect's brain hints at incred... by jerojero on Sunday March 12, 2023 @07:45AM (#35119025)
It's difficult to talk about colonies and intelligence on a collective level. They're a really strange phenomenon.

I mean we see all this marvelous complexity from neurons and humans... How interconnected are we? There's a lot of science fiction and fiction in general that deals with collective consciousness and it's all really cool. One of my favourite topics!

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