"ShaDoW" <grafixx at jps.net> wrote in message
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> i seem to remember hearing in a neuro class a couple years back that
> regardless of wether or not a persons head/brain size is big or small
> it really has nothing to do with intelligence. anyone know anything
> about this?
hmmm.
I would say that intelligence is correlatable with brain size.
Certainly, I would expect the earlier hominids, with smaller
brains, to be less intelligent than homo sapiens. Shape is probably also
important. Some of the earlier hominids had almost no forebrain at all.
At the very least this would mean that they would have a different
kind of intelligence.
Between humans, homo sapiens, you are probably right. Big isn't necessarily
better.
>i ask because in a class which was based around
> artificial intelligence and protein computers etc, there was a chart
> which showed the opposite. a bee for example could process
> information quicker than us and when searching for new technology the
> smaller the components the faster/better. i guess my question is, if
> a persons brain is small does that mean that t can possibly process
> info faster because the electrons have a shorter space to travel, or
> am i just misunderstanding everything?
Well, the brain is not comparable to a computer chip. On the contrary it
seems
to me that the wiring in the brain is completely opposite
and sometimes goes out of its way to be as complex (and illogical?) as
possible
(e.g. you process your visuals in the back of the brain, and everything from
your
left is processed in the right hemisphere etc.). All for a good reason
I suppose.
>i do remember eric drexler said
> our brains were just biological computers which process information.
Yes.
-Simon