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im3w1l on April 8, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Fat, Not Meat, May Have Led to Bigger Hominin Brai...

I know this is the conventional wisdom but it doesn't really make sense. Controlling a sperm whale's body doesn't seem like a hard computational problem.

mateo1 on April 8, 2019 | [–]

Echolocation in a "true" 3d environment is a very hard computational problem, which is why many aqueous mammals developed larger brains.

friedman23 on April 8, 2019 | [–]

I assume you mean relative to controlling a human body?

im3w1l on April 8, 2019 | [–]

Relative to anything smaller really.

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