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rayedearthstar
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rayedearthstar
11y ago
One possibility is that the mode and requirements of life have changed so quickly over the last few thousand years that the brain's ability to rewire and optimize for changed environment is lagging, and disabling large swathes of it ac
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rayedearthstar
11y ago
Not a very suitable analogy because an animal brain was in fact optimized for mobility for hundreds of millions of years. The real difference in desktop vs. laptop is lack of optimization for expandability, for use of standardized component
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rayedearthstar
11y ago
This is quite unconvincing: the evolutionary advantage of, let's say, all animals the size of lemurs, having human level intelligence is such that pressure to find this rewiring would have been unprecedented. I think more data and rese
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rayedearthstar
11y ago
The recommendation may still be appropriate: he hasn't necessarily read it.