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   China Blue Peter to William December Starr   
   Re: ideas needed for sudden evolution in   
   03 Aug 11 13:56:51   
   
   XPost: misc.health.alternative, rec.arts.sf.written, misc.misc   
   XPost: talk.bizarre   
   From: chine.bleu@yahoo.com   
      
   In article ,   
    wdstarr@panix.com (William December Starr) wrote:   
      
   > In article ,   
   > Bill Gill  said:   
   >   
   > > Well, just resizing the brain might not work too well.  There was   
   > > an article in Scientific American (July, 2011) about that.  The   
   > > author found that increasing the size of the brain might not help,   
   > > because of that old communication speed problem.  It seems that we   
   > > are approaching the point of diminishing returns.   
   >   
   > I just read it.  I can't tell from it whether slower processing   
   > speed in the brain _necessarily_ means lower intelligence, or if   
   > it might, with the proper configuration, merely mean _slower_   
   > intelligence.   
      
   We need to evolve a perfectly spherical brain to minimise connexion distances.   
   We can give chimpanzees a cylindrical/love seat brain.   
      
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