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Anonymous No. 16116313

Can there be tiny or microscopic intelligent life?

Anonymous No. 16116316

>>16116313
how is intelligent life intelligent? what's the reason?

Anonymous No. 16117592

>>16116313
Yes, look at tardigrades, they are able to roll up into a ball to protect themselves from harmful heat and cold and can even survive space

Anonymous No. 16118552

>>16117592
Could there be tiny brain that is complex just as normal brain or there needs to be more space for complexity?

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Anonymous No. 16118703

>>16116316
>>16116313
>>16117592

this spider is pretty intelligent but its not really microscopic
4 millimeter length?

it can jump
it actively hunts for prey using its superior vision

it has big lump of brain cells for a spider, other spiders have less

when a human looks it into eyes, it seems the spider is looking back

Anonymous No. 16118707

>>16118552
>or there needs to be more space for complexity?

it probably needs a lot of space for really complex things

but you gotta remember a mammal brain has huge areas for smell processing and also touch
both are probably not critical to actual intelligence

vision is I believe really important for gaining intelligence, without it learning is difficult

vision + sound and a capacity of memorizing and connecting things

less important is smell and touch