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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I don’t have an answer to this, but are all mammalian brain cells created equal? Keeping up with your computing metaphor, Perhaps the 3X brain of an elephant is like a Pentium 75 processor compared to a newer generation. Much larger but fewer transistors and thus less powerful?
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