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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sqnxlzLakU

This is more about beehaiviour research and playing with your balls, but the basic idea seems to be that even "small" brains do the same stuff the big brains do - like forming relationships, playing for fun, using tools, etc.

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> the basic idea seems to be that even "small" brains do the same stuff the big brains do

The shorter distances would allow for lower latencies, making the perception of time different. What we take a couple seconds to decide they must think took minutes and we are incredibly slow thinkers. The number of connections is lower, as is the neuron count, and I imagine they can't hold as much in working memory as we do, but, apart from that, they appear to be very smart.

Portia jumping spiders are incredibly smart. People have done experiments where they place the spiders in a complex environment with food in a hard to access location and they basically just sit there looking around until they've figured out a route to get the food. It takes them a while, I guess because they can only process so much information at a time, but they're remarkably good at doing it.

It's not that simple -- small animals move their bodies much faster than us, but the time scale at which they think seems to be similar to ours.

There was a 2022 study on rats which showed that when they listen to music, they will spontaneously move their bodies to the rhythm, like us. And the range of tempos where this effect is strongest is 120-140bpm.

https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/press/z0508_00262.html

Which is also why I think young children are so annoying to adults. They just think way faster, since they have much less things to consider and past experience to compare with, so they already skipped to the overnext topic, while the adult is still considering the last thing. Also all the people I talked to about it and myself report feeling that time becomes faster is you become older. There is of course also the affect that you perceive time less as you don't pay attention, because it is just regular Tuesday, but even if you only do new stuff for a day, it feels shorter than when you were young.

I agree - time keeps getting faster and faster as I age. In addition to less novelty and change, I like to think of it in terms of the fraction of your life lived so far. When you're 5 years old, every day is about 550 ppm (parts per million) of your life. When you're 35, every day is only 80 ppm. Of course it feels faster!

> beehaiviour

Heh :)

PS. "Hive" five I guess?

To bee or not to bee - that is the question.

It's all buzzwords.-

This was such a good watch, thank you

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