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The African elephant has about 3 times (2.57×10^11) as many neurons than the average human (8.6×10^10). The pilot whale (1.28×10^11). Perhaps they see the big
by voxelghost 1y ago
The African elephant has about 3 times (2.57×10^11) as many neurons than the average human (8.6×10^10). The pilot whale (1.28×10^11).
Perhaps they see the bigger picture, and realize that everything humans are doing is pretty meaningless.
- isoprophlex 1y agoFor sure you won't see them write heavy tomes about new kinds of science...
- dreamcompiler 1y agoHmmm... It was black coffee; no adulterants. Might work. Are keyboards dishwasher-proof?
- xandrius 1y agoMaybe if we had stopped where the elephants are, we would feel happier, we'd never know. Not enough neurons unfortunately.
- PartiallyTyped 1y agoI've read around that the overwhelming majority is used to balance / movement and perception. For us, I think we've a pretty nice balance in terms of structure and how much effort is required to control it.
- hulitu 1y ago> I've read around that the overwhelming majority is used to balance / movement and perception. Just like humans. /s
- RachelF 1y agoEuropean Neanderthals probably had 15% more neurons than modern Homo Sapiens, based on brain volume. We're still here, so bigger brains alone might not be the reason.
- rxtexit 1y agoImagine packing 50,000 elephants inside a football stadium. Humans have a unique ability to scale up a network of brains without complete hell breaking lose.
- jjk166 1y agoAlthough 50,000 humans inside a football stadium are not 50,000 times smarter than a single human. Indeed taken as a single entity, its intelligence is probably less than the average person. Collective intelligence likely peaks in the single digit number of coordinators and drops off steeply beyond a few dozen.
- cryptonector 1y agoIf anything mobs are dumber than any one person in the mob.
- mapcars 1y agoAre you comparing 50k elephants with hell? I bet our "ability to scale up a network of brains" is infinitely more dangerous than that.
- stonemetal12 1y agoIf I am not mistaken hasn't there been studies that show intelligence more about brain wrinkles than volume? Hence the memes about smooth brains (implying someone is dumb).
- oh_fiddlesticks 1y agoThis is how I understood it also.