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That, or our brains have hit some biological equivalent of Moore's law ending for silicon computing. Maybe getting a doubling in brain size would require a quad
by semi-extrinsic 6y ago
That, or our brains have hit some biological equivalent of Moore's law ending for silicon computing. Maybe getting a doubling in brain size would require a quadrupling in brain energy consumption (and power dissipation) at our level.
- jjk166 6y agoYeah that's what I mean by not scaling above a threshold. Our brains could be bigger (neanderthals had larger ones than us), but those bigger brains for whatever reason weren't "worth it."