TehBamski@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoWhat unethical experiment do you think would be interesting to conduct?message-squaremessage-square121linkfedilinkarrow-up1117arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up1112arrow-down1message-squareWhat unethical experiment do you think would be interesting to conduct?TehBamski@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square121linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareLouNeko@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month agoHow can rats have human level intelligence, if we as humans have to essentially consume the whole bodyweight of a rat daily, just to sustain our very energy demanding brains.
minus-squareWorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-21 month agoGood point. We should try something far longer lived, but good at surviving. Crocodiles? Nah…too much work to get them intelligent. Octopuses maybe? EDIT: Octopi just to avoid the annoying corrections.
How can rats have human level intelligence, if we as humans have to essentially consume the whole bodyweight of a rat daily, just to sustain our very energy demanding brains.
Good point. We should try something far longer lived, but good at surviving. Crocodiles? Nah…too much work to get them intelligent. Octopuses maybe?
EDIT: Octopi just to avoid the annoying corrections.