Neuron count is strongly correlated with body size, and does not necessarily correspond to what we like to call “intelligence”

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4244864

Ok but body size also corresponds somewhat closely with what we call intelligence within similar classes of animal.

Great apes are smarter than small apes. Big birds are generally smarter than small birds. Elephants are smarter than deer.

A spermwhale's brain is about the size of a basketball. An infographic for all brains and how their neurons are divided up in special domains, the ratio of brain size to body size, etc, would be interesting to see.

> A spermwhale's brain is about the size of a basketball

Well said. Here's another expression I often use: Stupider than Jupiter!

Jupiter is big but not very intelligent as far as we know.

African Greys have a brain the size of a walnut...mine is freekin' SMART.

Yes, but African Greys also have among the largest brains of all birds.

You can't necessarily compare bird brains to whale brains, but within birds (or really any similar class of animal) neurons seems to directly correlate with perceived intelligence.

Isn't that as pointless as comparing clock rates of different CPU-families?

No

Because all brains are working the same? No difference in "architecture", strategies, neurons, biology, chemistry, whatever?

Yeah my brain is a netburst. Not even joking. Context switches make me have to completely flush my pipeline. But once I get going on something my pipeline is pretty deep and my clock rate can get pretty high.