New Scientist Piece Reviewed:Limit to Brain Size

[Mark Friesel]

> Claudo de Contrecoeur* wrote:
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> > >From New Scientist:         My comments are not indented.
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> > >              [P L A N E T   S C I E N C E]
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> > >         End of the road for brain evolution
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> > This is quite interesting reading as I often wondered what is the
> > ultimate size a brain could reach and still work properly.

MF:

About the size of a walnut.  I have a theory that ultimate brain size 
was reached in the golden lion monkey, and that man has greatly exceeded 
this size, to his detriment.  We can't stop the workings of this 
oversized brain long enough to properly evaluate and observe the effects 
of its doings on ourselves, but instead just keep churning out waste 
thoughts just like some poor soul with Montezuma's revenge keeps 
churning out other waste.  Think, for example (oh, my GODDDDD!  I can't 
stop! AHHHhhhhhhhh!) how much of our internet babbling has any use 
whatsoever, or shows any insight at all.  Pardon me while I go eat some 
flowers and contemplate the cosmic wheel.  Maybe my brain will shrink 
back to a useful size.

Mark Friesel