<html><head></head><body>I have another new favourite smart arthropod, the Portia spiders. <div><br></div><div>They hunt other spiders and it looks like they actually out-think them. Using 600,000 neurons, 60% of a bee. </div><div>http://www.dichotomistic.com/mind_readings_spider%20minds.html</div><div><div>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portia_(genus)</div><div>http://www.rifters.com/real/2009/01/iterating-towards-bethlehem.html</div><div><br></div><div>I found them thanks to Peter Watts latest novel "Echopraxia" (a kind of sequel to Blindsight). Lots of awesome ideas and disturbing transhumans. </div><div><br><br>Anders Sandberg,
Future of Humanity Institute
Philosophy Faculty of Oxford University</div></div></body></html>