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I mean, that would be possible, if our shoulder muscles were about ten times as strong as they are, and we built strong enough wings (about ten meters long!). B
by scythe 3y ago
I mean, that would be possible, if our shoulder muscles were about ten times as strong as they are, and we built strong enough wings (about ten meters long!). But what's the analogous component for the shoulder muscles in operating a brain?
- kristopolous 3y agoThe point was that systems are multi-faceted, complicated, nuanced, and work by mechanisms and principles that are not obvious. Experts have a really hard time nailing down a working definition of intelligence to begin with, even when given thousands of pages to describe it - the idea that such an elusive thing is simply, directly correlated to the size of an object, is frankly, fairly unbelievable. It used to be used all the time. For instance, to defend the idea that women and asians weren't as intelligent as anglo saxons because they were smaller in stature. There's plenty of other ludicrous nonsense claims that were made based on this supposed principle. We all agree that the conclusions are nonsense but somehow we hold on to the premise.
- SamReidHughes 3y agoWhat is unbelievable is your theory of vestigial brain matter, which you just made up.
- kristopolous 3y agoTotal nonsense. I'm not going to reply to your appeals to group people into "races" and then do phrenology on them to assign them intelligence numbers on this thread either. Have a good evening.
- SamReidHughes 3y ago[flagged]
- dang 3y agoSam....please don't. We need users like you to stick to the standard so others will follow the example. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- kristopolous 3y agoI'm not upset. I just value my time more than your opinions.