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Not sure neuron number correlates to smarts, either. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/gut-second-brain/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/gu
by card_zero 2y ago
Not sure neuron number correlates to smarts, either.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/gut-second-brain/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/gut-second-brain/
There are 100 million in my gut, but it doesn't solve any problems that aren't about poop, as far as I know.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_by_number_of_neurons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_by_number_of_n...
If the suspiciously round number is accurate, this puts the human gut somewhere between a golden hamster and ansell's mole-rat, and about level with a short-palated fruit bat.
- HarHarVeryFunny 2y agoAgreed. It's architecture that matters, although for a given brain architecture (e.g. species) there might be benefits to scale. mega-brain vs pea-brain. I was just pointing out that a crow's brain is built on a more advanced process node than our own. Smaller transistors.
- Animats 2y agoThat makes sense. Birds are very weight-limited, so there's evolutionary pressure to keep the mass of the control system down.
- readthenotes1 2y agoI suspect there is more going on with your gut neurons then you would expect. If nothing else, the vagus nerve I had to direct communication link. I like to think that it is my gut brain that is telling me that it's okay to have that ice cream...