I know, I mentioned "like us", there are optimizations, just not necessarily the same as the one we'd put in place. ps: note that I'm not knowledgeable about t

I know, I mentioned "like us", there are optimizations, just not necessarily the same as the one we'd put in place. ps: note that I'm not knowledgeable about the topic, I'm just picturing an easy coupling between more cells and more neurons. It might be a totally different reason, maybe whales have a different metabolysm / development causing more brain mass for unrelated reasons :)