I don’t know anything about neuroscience so I’m just naval gazing out loud, but my grandpa always answered “the more synapse connections in your brain, the bett

I don’t know anything about neuroscience so I’m just naval gazing out loud, but my grandpa always answered “the more synapse connections in your brain, the better. Don’t worry about when you will use this” when I whined about learning something. I suspect intelligence and knowledge acquisition is something like training layers in a neural net. Having pretrained edge detections and such is valuable even when the specific task is changed. There’s an underlying structure to most of the part of reality that we interface with.