Labels:bulletin board | reckoner | window OCR: But how did that occur? That's an evolutionary question and neurophysiological one as well Both kinds of answers are needed if we are 0 understand our own intelligence They might even help uS appreciate how an artificial or an exotic intelligence could evolve Did our intelligence arise from having more of what other animals have? The two -millimeter thick cerebral cortex is the part of the brain most involved with making novel associations Ours is extensively wrinkled but were it flattened it would occupy four sheets of typing paper. chimpanzee's cortex would fit on one sheet, monkey's on a postcard rat's on a stamp Yet a purely quantitative explanation seems incomplete Iwill argue that our intelligence arose primarily through the refinement some brain specialization such as that for langu ...
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