Originally Posted by Just2Good
Its called a dog's leash, small yet effective at controlling the animal.
A stupid analogy. It is not the leash that controls, it is the owner of the leash.
Using your analogy I could control a country using a single hand gun pressed under the jaw of the prime minister's children.
Look, artificial complex systems must have sophisticated internal mechanisms for co-ordinating its own behaviour. Such mechanisms are costly - so very costly that for a billion years an extra large cerebral cortex did not appear in any animal with a brain.