综述: 智力的涌现

星海茫茫,地球因智慧生命的存在而与众不同,我们在追寻生命起源的同时,也追问着智力的源头,什么是智力的本质,智力从何涌现?生命大爆炸不仅带来激增的物种数量,也带来专司信息感知、编码和处理的神经系统.在复杂多变的外部环境中,昆虫已发展演化了近4亿年.在这里,我们借由现代认知神经科学在果蝇中的研究发现,探讨智力的基本层面,提出果蝇的大脑是智力涌现中的一个标杆,是我们揭开智力本质、进入智力王国的第一站.

Review: The Emergence of Intelligence

Among vast stars in the universe, the earth is distinctive for the existence of intelligent life on its surface. We wonder the origin of life, and meanwhile, we are also intrigued by the emergence of intelligence. What is the essence of intelligence? How does it emerge? During the Cambrian Explosion, a huge amount of species burst, moreover, the nervous system emerged for information perception, coding and processing. Contemporaneously, insects emerged and have existed for 400 million years in the complicated and fickle environment. In this article, we discuss the basic properties of intelligence on the basis of research findings in modern Drosophila cognitive neuroscience. We thereby propose that Drosophila brain is an important milestone in the emergence of intelligence, thus serving as the first station in our journey of uncovering the intelligence essence and entering the kingdom of intelligence.