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It doesn’t seem particularly compelling. One source of evidence is work by Suzana Herculano-Houzel, a neuroscientist who has dissolved the brains of many creatures to determine how many neurons are present. She’s found a lot of interesting scaling laws. She has a paper discussing the human brain as a scaled-up primate brain.60 Across a wide variety
... See moreDwarkesh Patel • The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019–2025
In understandable language, Richard J. Haier explains cutting-edge techniques based on genetics, DNA, and imaging of brain connectivity and function.
Richard J. Haier • The Neuroscience of Intelligence (Cambridge Fundamentals of Neuroscience in Psychology)
"“Human nature likes order,” wrote the economist Burton Malkiel in his seminal book A Random Walk Down Wall Street. “People find it hard to accept the notion of randomness.”" (Justin Gregg, If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal)
What happened next was what always happens in my experience when someone reports a null result. The audience made helpful suggestions for reasons why the result had not been positive and suggested modifications of the sampling, measures or analysis that might be worth trying. The measure of handedness was, as Lottie was the first to admit, very sim... See more
deevybee • Just make it stop! When will we say that further research isn't needed?
So much of the way knowledge is produced within an academy is very exclusive and inaccessible to so many people with not just different senses, but just to different walks of life. And that’s across every field. It’s such a loss, I think, about our understanding of the natural world.
ed yong • What Counts as Seeing
Virtue cannot be limited to those with the means to practice it.