Does anyone know how big an ant or butterfly's brain is? They do things that are pretty mindblowing in my book with those spec of dust sized brains.
You can check out a complete fruit fly brain here:
https://fafb-ffn1.storage.googleapis.com/landing.html
Or half of a fruit fly brain that has been more fully reconstructed:
But their lifespan is way shorter and their number is way higher; which means way more feedback from darwinistic evolution.
To me it means their 'intelligent' behavior should be much more a function of being hardcoded in the neuron layout at the genetic level than being in a generic intelligent meat processor at an emergent level.
Much like ASICs vs CPUs.