And some small spiders have 80% of their body cavity taken up by the brain & nervous system.
More evidence the world is just a giant datacenter.
More evidence the world is just a giant datacenter.
The mice paid Magrathea for Earth in order to help work out the Ultimate Question. I'm pretty sure it's something like "what is six times seven?"
Seriously, though, it's not unthinkable to me that the simulation argument is right, and that one of the reasons why simulations might be created is to explore questions that the parent civilization is curious about and needs minds of a certain character or experiential background to examine.
We're basically doing that right now, after all, with things like AlphaGo being created to 'understand' the game of Go at a level we don't. At some point, the quotes around 'understand' will not be apt, and AlphaGo++ will be able to put its understanding into terms that will be useful to us.
But "How many roads must a man walk down?" is the 'Question' that the pan-dimensional mice who commissioned the Earth decided to run with to save their careers and possibly lives, after the Earth was destroyed 5 minutes before outputting the final result of its multi-million year computation to determine what the actual Question of life, the universe, and everything, was.
In short: come at me, noob ;-)