Anonymous at Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:49:12 UTC No. 16583717

>>16583706
>would a glass with orange juice turn into a glass with wine if you do x?
Brain:body mass ratio is too simplistic for truly meaningful inter-species comparisons.

Anonymous at Wed, 12 Feb 2025 23:20:12 UTC No. 16584103

Does that graph say, that crows are smart?
Because I think they are.

Anonymous at Thu, 13 Feb 2025 01:17:45 UTC No. 16584191

>>16583706
OP, 2 things to consider:

First this is a log-log scale so you end up with some weird radical composite function relating unless x and y unless you have the exact plot log y = log x. For example log y = 1/2 log x is the same as y = sqrt(x). Be careful about drawing intuition on proportionality from this kind of graph.

That being said, the Brain:body ratio is not the only factor in human-like intelligence. The particular function of specific areas of the brain has a big impact. For example, much of our advantage compared to other species is the ability to produce and understand language. These are managed in large part by two relatively small chunks of the brain: the "Wernicke's Area" and "Broca's Area". Also the frontal lobe plays a big part in logical/rational thinking and our frontal lobe is more developed relative to other species. Sperm whales may have to dedicate large chunks of their brain to motor control, balance and balast, echolocation deciphering, etc. They are pretty smart as far as animals go, but maybe they have less processing power for critical thinking compared to us. Gets even weirder when you think of more alien kinds of intelligence like the octopus, which has 2/3 of its neurons in its tentacles. They are also very smart, but their intelligence takes a more distributed form.

Anonymous at Thu, 13 Feb 2025 03:33:39 UTC No. 16584274

>>16583706
>If we ignore everything we know about computer processing capabilities, we can pretend that oversized brains with significant signal delay might match our own processing capability
Clock. Speed. Fucking. Matters.