Timeline for What needs to be changed in the structure of the human brain to make it as smart as possible?
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| Nov 1, 2021 at 23:57 | comment | added | Goodies | Longer dendrites representing deeper thought processes ? I cannot confirm that. And indeed, probably the brain needs to be compacted to enhance speed. A human brain that is, not a rat brain. You'd need denser brain tissue. Some sources tell enhancing the conductivity of neural pathways may work as well, but I don't quite grab how that would work. | |
| Nov 1, 2021 at 22:12 | comment | added | Nosajimiki | Faster thinking is only made possible through less complex structures which means you can either think smart, or think fast. A rat can think fast because its brain is small, so the path between any 2 points is much shorter. Humans with bigger dendrites than others are following heavily reinforced neuropathways. Our brain reshape itself to make more direct paths for thoughts we have most often, but displace other functionality when we do it. So to be a fast thinker in one way makes you a slower thinker in others. | |
| Oct 29, 2021 at 9:37 | history | edited | Goodies | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 29, 2021 at 9:31 | comment | added | Goodies | @FrankThompson4 I'm not an expert on the subject, but there's info available, I added a few links | |
| Oct 28, 2021 at 21:04 | comment | added | Frank Thompson 4 | Could you describe how their brains could work faster than ours? | |
| Oct 28, 2021 at 19:39 | comment | added | Goodies | Agree, it might not affect intelligence, but it would help daily use of the brain.. and also memory (storage) Faster action in the brain can make education much denser, people being able to learn more, quicker.. we actually don't know whether there is a practical limit in containing information. Having a quicker brain will enable us to select and access that information quicker. | |
| Oct 28, 2021 at 19:31 | comment | added | John O | It's unclear that increasing the speed of computation increases what people call intelligence. It's true that if the only difference between two beings was one of computational speed that we could expect the faster to come up with their genius sooner, but what we call intelligence doesn't seem to be the case of geniuses coming up with correct answers more quickly than dumbies, rather the dumbies come up with wrong answers or none at all. | |
| Oct 28, 2021 at 19:22 | history | answered | Goodies | CC BY-SA 4.0 |