Within a particular genus or architecture, more neurons would be higher intelligence. Comparing between completely different neural network types is indeed problematic
Within a particular genus or architecture, more neurons would be higher intelligence.
I’m not sure that’s necessarily true? Though there’s probably a correlation. See e.g. this post:
[T]he raw number of neurons an organism possesses does not tell the full story about information processing capacity. That’s because the number of computations that can be performed over a given amount of time in a brain also depends upon many other factors, such as (1) the number of connections between neurons, (2) the distance between neurons (with shorter distances allowing faster communication), (3) the conduction velocity of neurons, and (4) the refractory period which indicates how much time must elapse before a given neuron can fire again. In some ways, these additional factors can actually favor smaller brains (Chitka 2009).
Yes: their sleep differs, for obvious reasons, and messing with REM sleep could well be why they need more neurons. Specifically, we know that echidna (a terrestrial species that lack REM sleep) has much more neurons than it should given its body mass (and, arguably, behavior), and one hypothesis is there’s a causal link, e.g. REM sleep could be a mean to make neuron use more efficient.
Within a particular genus or architecture, more neurons would be higher intelligence. Comparing between completely different neural network types is indeed problematic
I’m not sure that’s necessarily true? Though there’s probably a correlation. See e.g. this post:
Yes , the point is that once you fixed architecture and genus (eg connections etc), more neurons/synapses leads to more capabilities
I see, that makes sense. I agree that holding all else constant more neurons implies higher intelligence.
I don’t think whale neurons or the way they are connected are that different, unless you know of some research?
Yes: their sleep differs, for obvious reasons, and messing with REM sleep could well be why they need more neurons. Specifically, we know that echidna (a terrestrial species that lack REM sleep) has much more neurons than it should given its body mass (and, arguably, behavior), and one hypothesis is there’s a causal link, e.g. REM sleep could be a mean to make neuron use more efficient.