[MD] Unkludging the MoQ

Krimel Krimel at Krimel.com
Wed Aug 18 05:56:30 PDT 2010


[Dave] 
The guy from Oxford who was studying the social aspects of brain development
noted that chimps on average can keep track of about 50 other individuals
while humans max out at about 150. Also that while chimps can understand to
some degree the intentions of one or maybe two other individuals at the same
time humans can think about the intentions of 6 or 7 other individuals
before they max out. And this seem to be a physical limitation of processing
power.

[Krimel]
Exactly, Michael Shermer goes into the importance of group size in his book,
"The Science of Good and Evil." That issue of 150 people is very important.
It is doubtful that we would have civilization without having found a way to
overcome this limitation. Our superpowers all arise from the relative
complexity of our nervous systems. I think you have put your finger on it
right there in your last sentence with that marvelous product of the modern
Mythos, "processing power."




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