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who at cares.com who at cares.com
Mon Jan 25 10:57:40 EST 1999


Boy that would be awsome!

fROM A BILOGICAL POINT OF VIEW "SMART" COULD MEAN "FIT".

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>In article <36aa501c.154013379 at news.udel.edu>, who at cares.com writes:
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>>Whats does smart mean?
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>Maybe 'smart' means making the best of the mental equipment you have, but
> perhaps 'smartness' and 'intelligence'  are not well enough defined to be
>ideal in  comparing species.
>Looking at it another way, an animal with significantly more neurons in its
>brain than another ought to have significantly more processing power in its
>brain. 
>
>So what is the extra processing power in a dolphin's brain  used for?
>
>Now if we could find an MRI scanner big enough to fit a dolphin inside, perhaps
>we could uncover  some interesting answers ;-)
>
>Tony




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