the trickster god of the crows hides beneath their wings a wreath of fingers, which give them the dexterity to effect schemes about which even the cleverest mortal crows can only fantasize
What’s funny about this is not just that it’s a cool fantasy idea, but that no one has ever done anything like it. I mean, sure, you could make a case that you can, in principle, make a functioning system that responds to external stimuli in the same way by building off-original-planets versions of the same kind of thinking that allows you to assume a number of things about the world around you, but most of the things we take for granted were at least conceptually impossible in some ways.
And insofar as the “trickster god” idea might be a good example of a concept that is actually intuitive and/or easy to implement, well, that’s a pretty compelling example of the concept being intuitively difficult to implement, isn’t it? People can’t believe in the “trickster god” even though the idea is intuitively obvious. (If you can’t believe in the “trickster god” it’s probably because the concept isn’t intuitively obvious, and that “believing in the trickster god” is difficult even in the case where it might make sense.)