/sci/ - Science & Math

>>12591597
>being smart is better than being dumb.
Only if traits that lead to being smart are not tied to autism or schizophrenic. Otherwise you lower your chances to find a mate and procreate. In this instance being "dumb" is technically better.
>being strong is better than being weak.
Yet some of the traits tied to increase smarts are found in features that make people weak like Myopia.

>the complexity of intelligent life didn't exist on earth a million years ago not because those traits would not have been of any benefit, but because they (and the systems that support them) take a long fucking time to emerge.
Not entirely true, it's very feasible that intelligent life did exist millions of years ago but the specific traits and opportunities necessary to maximize its utilization only became realized recently. For instance Dolphins are intelligent, however they do not possess the dexterity that humans have thus barred from writing and building, nor do they exist in environmental conditions conducive to the path of civilization and industrialization like access to fire.

>>12043440

>comparing brains between different species

Where's my Dolphin Carl Friedrich Gauss?

>>10125748
remember it's the outer layer that does all the work, and the more wrinkled it it the more work it can do

Some species have twice as many neurons as humans.