Eli5: How are humans so intelligent?
In: Biology
Think about a sheet of paper, you can draw 2 lines and connect the 4 corners of that paper. Fold the paper in two, now you need 8 lines to connect all corners.
Most organisms act on that 2 dimensional scale, if it is sweet eat it, if it is sour do not.
Go one dimension up, if it is bright edible, sweet edible, dull inedible, sour inedible. Bright and sour edible but doesn’t taste good, sweet but dull edible but not much nutrition.
Now fold that paper about 1000 times, and try to calculate how many combinations that gives you.
Our intelligence doesn’t come from the size of our brains, it comes from how many synapses have connections to other synapses.
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