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Originally Posted by Blacklight
Thought processes for humans, animals and insects are pretty much all the same speed. The difference is reaction times which is usually based on how efficiently the brain is wired up to the muscles in the rest of the body as the signals have to travel through the nerves to get to the muscles. I believe that a housefly has the fastest reaction time (though don't quote me on it.. there may be faster but it's one of the fastest). Then again, it has 10000000 eyes, a massive field of vision, and the signals from the brain which is pretty much just a reflex, not really a thought, doesn't have to travel that far to tell the muscles to move.
This is why hitting that damn annoying fly is so hard !
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I was studying house flies while I had to kill two last week! There is a flaw in their programming!
Sitting on a surface, you will never be able to catch them/kill them if you move fast. However, if an object starts out slow, they don't treat it as a threat, allowing you to speed up said object to fast while they only lazily try and get away. This allows one to catch or kill a housefly as needed with nothing more than a piece of paper towel, or even ones hand for that matter! :p
-S