46 points | by apollinaire 6 hours ago ago
11 comments
Interesting. So, the human brain is the scaled-up monkey brain with significant architectural changes.
What was the alternative?
Scaling-up without significant architectural changes.
Or significant architectural changes without scaling up.
Or a single magic mutation.
And if we ran an experiment where we gave it to some apes…
Implies intelligent design
I think its rather some mutations that produced more reelin and created the most successful animal in earth's history
The most successful animal by what metric?
Tetris high scores, obviously
The most successful at communicating their view that they are the most successful. Whether they are or not. But that means they are. By that metric.
Has another animal proposed they are more successful by a different metric?
Crickets?
Some of us don't spend days looking for food, don't die of cold, and survive the flu...
aaand we have Quake and Comand&Conquer - Red Alert
So Steely Dan documented this first?
Interesting. So, the human brain is the scaled-up monkey brain with significant architectural changes.
What was the alternative?
Scaling-up without significant architectural changes.
Or significant architectural changes without scaling up.
Or a single magic mutation.
And if we ran an experiment where we gave it to some apes…
Implies intelligent design
I think its rather some mutations that produced more reelin and created the most successful animal in earth's history
The most successful animal by what metric?
Tetris high scores, obviously
The most successful at communicating their view that they are the most successful. Whether they are or not. But that means they are. By that metric.
Has another animal proposed they are more successful by a different metric?
Crickets?
Some of us don't spend days looking for food, don't die of cold, and survive the flu...
aaand we have Quake and Comand&Conquer - Red Alert
So Steely Dan documented this first?