In a parallel world, I must be a scientist conducting studies that can change the world. Either that or I’m just a sucker for a good scientific discovery. Bumblebees getting a one-up on our souped up computer brains? Say it isn’t so!

eurekalert.org:

“Our study shows that the tiny brain of the bee can not only solve this difficult task, which the most sophisticated computers still can’t resolve, but suggests they do so by using the colour relationships between objects in a scene that were statistically most useful in their past experience. Because this same strategy is also used by humans, our work on bees, in conjunction with our work on humans, may enable us to understand the general principles by which any visual system (natural or artificial) can construct useful behaviour from ambiguous sensory information.

Something else to note is how freakishly good the brain is at recalling memories despite the passage of time triggered by sensory experiences. Like when I went back to the house I grew up in a couple months ago and the memories flooded back on me long believed to be forgotten. Howupon seeing, smelling, hearing or tasting do we recall memories long believed to have been lost? It’s like there is a second hard drive in our brains that has unlimited write capabilities and limited read capability based upon unique sensory sensations.

If only we could tap into that more often, imagine the capacity of learning and instant recall?

Did this post make you go hmm?

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