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Not disagreeing, but let me point out that animals can move their bodies quite well and we consider most of them significantly less intelligent. I don't know wh
by wjholden 4y ago
Not disagreeing, but let me point out that animals can move their bodies quite well and we consider most of them significantly less intelligent. I don't know what proportion of the brain is used for movement and what proportion is used for cognition.
- someweirdperson 4y agoDolphins and bears can balance a ball on their nose. Human artists can balance multiple plates on sticks. Is it a difference in computing power, or just because we can't force animals to practice enough?
- ambivalents 4y agoCouldn't this prove the point that we don't equate movement with intelligence, though? Who's to say animals also don't possess this intelligence? Maybe we'd have to go down the chain then, to more inert species like plants and fungi, though they also possess intelligence I can't begin to comprehend.
- Pelam 4y agoIANAB, but large animal bodies correlate with large brain size. Huge animals like elephants and whales have much bigger brains than humans, but are not considered cognitively equivalent to humans. Maybe moving and maintaining a body requires body size proportional "raw" computational power and maybe human brains have mostly just qualitative differences not related to mass when compared to animals (ok, and a bit of extra proportional brain mass too). If this is the case the connection between excercise and cognitive capacity could seem natural. Excercise requires massive neural resources and thus physical excercises also excercise the brain to a large degree and the whatever qualitative bit that humans have "on top" simply rides the wave to some improvement.