We can think up a sophisticated program in the…

We can think up a sophisticated program in the ant's brain that might explain its plex plex behavior, but we'll find that it does not work. What we overlooked in our efforts to speculate about the ant's brain is the ant's environment.

— from The Mind in the Cockpit · Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious by Gerd Gigerenzer

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