Elephants have 3x larger brains than humans. I know that their brain-to-body mass ratio is similar to humans, but shouldn’t the absolute volume matter too? It’s like having 1 CPU vs 3 CPUs, if they are comparable, then the 3 CPUs should outperform the 1. And don’t we have similarly structured brains? How come they are not nearly as smart as us?
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It isn’t about the size of the brain it is the number of connections within the brain, larger animals in general have larger brains mainly to keep track of their own body. 3 CPUs from the 1990’s aren’t better than 1 CPU from today.
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