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Elephants have 3x the neurons of a human. Bees have about a million and they have complex relationships, emotions, and can remember the faces of humans. Neuron
by kdheiwns 8mo ago
Elephants have 3x the neurons of a human. Bees have about a million and they have complex relationships, emotions, and can remember the faces of humans. Neuron counts correspond more to body size than actual cognitive abilities.
And brains are pretty complicated in how they're arranged. A large portion of the brain basically serves as an operating system of sorts, just managing breathing, moving, detecting smells, producing language, decoding language, etc. Cut all of that out and we're left with thinking and emotions.
- IshKebab 8mo agoI don't think it works like that. Most likely high intelligence & consciousness requires both a large number of neurons and wiring them up in a specific way. If you have a small number (200k is tiny) you aren't going to achieve consciousness.
- withinboredom 7mo agoThe problem is: you can’t prove it. We have no idea what “conscious” even means. It’s literally why the Turing Test exists.