what are some of your favorite breakthroughs in technological or biological history? this guy Max Bennett is saying there were five evolutionary breakthroughs that ultimately led up to the human brain, and I'm curious to see what he has to say about the incredible difference in intelligence between rats and mice: rats are basically like small dogs, mice are more like mammalian bugs.rats have a huge hippocampus so that may be one of his breakthroughs, but I haven't yet read thoroughly enough to say.
>>16903556ATP synthesis, endocrine regulation feedback loops, homogenization of neural signals
>>16903586those are some pretty good choices, could you explain the last one though?
Pythagoras traveling to Egypt, learning A2 + B2 = C2 He then travels back to Greece, teaches proportion ratio to Alexander the Greats father Philip II who was held in exchange between greek nation states to ensure peace, learning under a teacher of military tactics at the battle of Leuctra (300 gay bros versus the Spartans). Philip II takes the proportion ratio of battle strategy and applies it to spear length, going on to dominate and take over the entirety of Greece and uniting it.His son Alexander then takes the tactics and spear ratio and increases it to ridiculous ratios, making enormously long spears that multiple men carried. He went on to conquer a large portion of the world. https://youtu.be/RlKJDwViNKs?si=V6IOKER2SHfgpFPq
>technological historyThe transistor.
>>16903660Neurons create noise whenever they fire, so it's very difficult to generate clear output if billions of them are firing and interfering with one another. Homogenization of signals solves this problem, sort of.
"Theory of mind" is only a theory
>>16903556computers and electronics/digital devices in general?also, remote comms using electromagnetics, starting with radios. these days we can talk to people in other countries almost instantaneously.
Induction motorTransistorRadio communication
