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Have we ever done any studies to see what's going on in the heads of these guys? Do we know which species of insect are intelligent compared to the others? What is insect neurology like; do they generally have defined brains?

Any papers, studies, or anecdotes you can provide would be helpful. Thanks for indulging my curiosity.

>> No.12732263

Bump for interest

>> No.12732282

>>12731511
Independent researcher here. I noticed that when cut of the heads of insects it made very little difference. This lead me to conclude that not much happens inside their heads.

>> No.12732832

>>12731511
Insects really look like they might as well be aliens, I mean in the sense that they're so different from us

>> No.12732916

>>12732282
>independent researcher
>cuts heads off bugs

sure you're not just a latent psycho anon?

>> No.12733061

>>12732282
Insect brains are distributed throughout the notochord

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12733066

>>12732832

>> No.12733070

>>12731511
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.27.921114v1.full
A comparative analysis of learning behaviors across 32 species of bees finds correlations between learning and brain volume

>> No.12734631

>>12733061
Yes, and cephalopod brains are toroidal. I'm more interested in the overall computing power than the brain structure. I mean, I know it isn't great, but still.

>> No.12734643

>>12733070
Whoah now, you're not insisting something other than socio-beeconomic factors influence cognition are you? Bee lives matter bigot.

>> No.12734658

>>12731511
I dunno about insects but Portia spiders are ridiculously intelligent given that their "brains" contain only 500,000 neurons

>> No.12734689

>>12731511
jumping spiders are crazy smart

there's also a dessert ant that counts its steps to keep track of where it is

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12734692

>>12733066
wrong nose

>> No.12734908

>>12731511
Any theoretical difference in intelligence would be immaterial. These things are the closest thing to stimulus = action