How insects like bumblebees do so much with tiny brains

Post by phyllostachys » Wed, Jan 25, 2017, 8:32 PM UTC

Xophmeister wrote: post #28

pizza wrote: post #3

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Maybe something along the lines of "our brains would overheat" - there's a small temperature window in which proteins won't denature, it takes k T log 2 joules to erase one bit of information (Landauer's principle), and our brain uses around 20 Watts of power. Maybe tin foil hats make good heatsinks.. Interestingly enough there is some evidence that the Gibbs free energy of ketone metabolism is more thermodynamically…

Doesn't that imply that people who live in hotter climates have...how can I put this politely?...a disadvantage when it comes to the stability of their brains? I would assume that the brain has a certain amount of redundancy, but has this ever been researched: How hot can it get before people start getting noticeably "stupider"?

Post by lawpoop » Thu, Jan 26, 2017, 4:55 PM UTC

lawpoop wrote: post #142

tom_wilde wrote: post #131

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~7000 elements per compound eye according to this page: https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/brookfieldfarmhoney.wordpress...

That's individual lenses, right? But it says that each lens has its own photoreceptor(s). So that is a multiple of 7000.