A jumping spider with fewer than 100,000 neurons plans hour-long hunting routes, learns from experience, rotates mental images, and deceives its prey — challenging everything we thought intelligence required.
What a Spider Knows


A jumping spider with fewer than 100,000 neurons plans hour-long hunting routes, learns from experience, rotates mental images, and deceives its prey — challenging everything we thought intelligence required.

MIT researchers discovered that students using ChatGPT showed 55% weaker brain connectivity and couldn’t remember essays they ‘wrote’ hours before. The findings reveal a troubling new phenomenon: cognitive debt that could reshape how we think.

Exploring the hard problem of consciousness, AI sentience, and what never changes in our rapidly evolving world. Key insights from a thoughtful discussion forum.