RE: Blind faith and evolution
July 26, 2013 at 12:23 pm
(This post was last modified: July 26, 2013 at 12:24 pm by Rahul.)
(July 26, 2013 at 10:31 am)enrico Wrote: Sperm whale brain is 5-6 time bigger and yet her consciousness is so much smaller.
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Well duh. You can't tell how smart something is just by brain size. You have to compare brain to body ratio just to get started.
Enough with that though, it's not a good indicator. There are some humans that have huge brains but with a mentally retarded intellect. There are other humans that have brains almost only half that size that are considered genius intelligent.
Males have on average larger brains than the average female, but males have not been found to be more intelligent than females in any test given to measure intelligence.
Dolphins have brains smaller than humans but their neurons are much more densely packed than ours. Dolphins have been shown to have in a sense "names" for other Dolphins and have been recorded talking about a Dolphin that was not present to other Dolphins.
Maybe they're smarter than us. Who the fuck knows?
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