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26 Nov 2012, 10:36 pm

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10,000 years ago there was another hominid in South Africa with a larger brain. While projected to be intelligent, they died out.



There is no necessary connection between brain mass and intelligence.

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26 Nov 2012, 10:38 pm

AspieRogue wrote:
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^^^^^^^^^Some reptile females can reproduce without a male.Komodo Dragons can.
Many new intelligence tests involving reptiles have proven a greater adaptability than mammals,Forget mammal D.N.A.,go reptile.
With global warming we can't lose,good basking weather.



This creature most likely would be neither mammal nor reptile. The trouble with reptiles is that their metabolism isn't high enough to support a large, complex brain like that.[/quot

The Gorn on Star Trek seemed pretty complex :lol:



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27 Nov 2012, 1:26 am

Don't you still need an organism to put the brain into? I'm not following....what ever you put the brain into is an organism with it's own DNA right? I ono......


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30 Nov 2012, 1:40 am

Oh god ... people want another non-human entity to have human rights.
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30 Nov 2012, 1:56 am

DarthMetaKnight wrote:
Oh god ... people want another non-human entity to have human rights.
:roll: :lol:




IDK about that, I want to create a non-human entity that will not need *human rights* as it will be more intelligent than humans and ultimately rule over us.



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Don't you still need an organism to put the brain into? I'm not following....what ever you put the brain into is an organism with it's own DNA right? I ono......


The answer to your 1st question is YES. I am not talking about growing a brain in a vat, I am talking about tweaking the genes of an existing organism so that the mutant organism will grow a brain more complex and more capable than the human brain. ;)



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30 Nov 2012, 10:17 am

I'm still rooting for the Gorn.



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30 Nov 2012, 11:27 am

there is an inherent problem with brains over a certain size,

a brain is dependant on a very fast paced and extremely comple pattern of activity, over a certain size a brain will have too great a latency and as such the signal has to be paced down, across the entire brain.

to be honest i cant remember all the juicy details, the paper i read it in was about whale brains and how it relates to intelligence, one would have to work with a minimal mass and neuron increase and instead go for thought pattern and efficiancy.


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