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Re:Has humanity reached ‘peak intelligence’? by guscost on Friday April 02, 2021 @04:56PM (#26675905)
No, but I do believe in such a thing.
Re:Has humanity reached ‘peak intelligence’? by _rpd on Friday April 02, 2021 @05:08PM (#26676016)
It’s a fairly easy call on the existence of a finite upper bound, even if we can eventually start distributing a person’s intelligence to components outside their skull.
Re:Has humanity reached ‘peak intelligence’? by guscost on Friday April 02, 2021 @07:00PM (#26676809)
How close are we to this limit?
Re:Has humanity reached ‘peak intelligence’? by _rpd on Friday April 02, 2021 @07:45PM (#26677075)
Here are some interesting numbers relating to number of neurons vs. glial cells in various types of animal brains ...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2776484/