What would it be like to have the brain the size of a Whale?

[Jamesc]

The creatures size must say something of superiority?

[bejapuskas]

@Jamesc You wouldn't be able to carry your head on your neck  

[Leo Gura]

It's not the size that counts but how you use it

Then again, maybe whales are swimming around contemplating the nature of reality.

[TheAvatarState]

@Jamesc What if your brain was the size of the universe? 

You tell me... 

 

[now is forever]

mhh it’s not the size... it’s the surface. and even for whales it’s about surface, as they need to swim and dive up for air even while sleeping - i would like to have the function like them of sleeping with one half of the brain while staying awake with the other one.

just imagine you wouldn’t call them left or right side anymore but day and night side.

Edited January 20, 2019 by now is forever

[Jamesc]

3 hours ago, TheAvatarState said:

@Jamesc What if your brain was the size of the universe? 

You tell me... 

 

Haha I would probably one big ass brain! Then I would have never known what I was though 

[bejapuskas]

4 hours ago, Jamesc said:

Haha I would probably one big ass brain! Then I would have never known what I was though 

???????

[outlandish]

It's really hard to imagine. Not only are their brains gigantic, but they have quite different anatomy from ours. I remember hearing about how orcas have a very large and developed part of their brain that is mostly for social processing, it's proportionately many times larger than the equivalent structure in the human brain. Orcas probably have a very advanced social intelligence that we can't begin to fathom.

A crazy thing about brains is that, like computers, they are very energy hungry. The human brain burns ~20% of our energy at rest, even though it's only ~2% of our bodyweight. That's a lot of overhead to support, a lot of extra feeding that has to be justified by the benefit it must bring to the organism for survival. 

[Hansu]

We are clearly not using our brains at full capacity so why would bigger brains make any difference

[now is forever]

@Hansu mhh maybe it’s about higher organisation more... and about gyros it’s better to have some than none.

Edited January 21, 2019 by now is forever

[Leo Gura]

Step 1: LSD mind-meld with an Orca and suck out all his juicy social knowledge

Step 2: Profit!

[now is forever]

all you need to do for that is speaking whalish...

fluently

Edited January 21, 2019 by now is forever

[CreamCat]

53 minutes ago, Hansu said:

We are clearly not using our brains at full capacity so why would bigger brains make any difference

Right, complain about capacity after following instructions on the following article

 

[Hansu]

@CreamCat

Haha, exactly

 

[Jamesc]

On 1/21/2019 at 2:09 AM, Leo Gura said:

Step 1: LSD mind-meld with an Orca and suck out all his juicy social knowledge

Step 2: Profit!

Step 3: Lose profit as melted mind becomes unstable in fear from change.

[Tal]

 

On 1/21/2019 at 7:50 AM, Hansu said:

why would bigger brains make any difference

There were the other human beings on the planet that were smarter than us and they had bigger brains(Neanderthals) 

[bejapuskas]

@Tal  Maybe they had bigger brains, but I don't think they were smarter?