Bigger brain?
The power of a computer is up to its calculating speed, the power of a human brain is atributed to its neural transduction speed; are there a limit for both? the computer can become bigger and bigger, or smaller and smaller with the material revolution, which leads to an expotientnal increase of speed limited by the energy consumed only, while human brain has to consider a balence between the size and energy consumed. The new research recently used a math model to see weather the human brain size changes with evolution, and drew the conclusion that it won’t unless human doen’t live in a dangous world. However I think there are other posiibilities to reach the objectives. Suppose we get a biological modification to improve the metablism efficacy and shrink the total volume of our body, then the brain could become smaller too and high speed running. The iPhone might be leading the trend for human brain evolution….high speed, low energy consumption, small size…..I heard from some researchs that said the future human is like a ball already, maybe that’s it…..
