Unless they were one of the select few geniuses who are able to ascend beyond cultural constructs and imagine the impossible, they would not be capable of grasping most of the concepts, despite having essentially
the same brain capacity.
Not exact matches
Moreover, it is his argument that any truly integrated system — a
brain, a computer, the Internet, but also a barometer, a photodiode, a geranium, a sheet of paper — has some calculable Phi value; consciousness is qualitatively the
same in all things, but in terms of intensity and
capacity it increases along with the complexity, «synergy,» and ordering of cognitive information in organized wholes, and along with the richness of the information it integrates in «holographic» or «crystallized» conceptual structures.
I knew that Alex was proving a profound truth:
brains may look different, and there may be a spectrum of ability that is determined by anatomical details, but
brains and intelligence are a universally shared trait in nature — the
capacity varies, but the building blocks are the
same.
Meanwhile, the
same thing goes wrong in the aging
brain, bringing one more insult to the accumulating cellular and molecular damage that slowly erodes the functional
capacity of the aging
brain, culminating in Parkinson's and other degenerative syndromes.
As most of the adult cranial
capacity is reached by age 10 or 11, it is likely that the adult ECV of WT 15000 would be no more than about 1000 - 1050cc, which is still well within the modern human range of about 800 - 2000cc.19 On the
same page Jue points out that a
brain capacity of 1400cc applies to the Vertesszöllos erectus specimen which is dated at around 350kya (kiloyears ago = thousands of years).
The movie covers some of the
same ground as Luc Besson's «Lucy,» about what might happen if people started using their full
brain capacity.
Both units share the
same chassis, specifications, storage
capacity etc... but they have different
brains.