Home page. The Limits of Intelligence. Santiago Ramón y Cajal, the Spanish Nobel-winning biologist who mapped the neural anatomy of insects in the decades before World War I, likened the minute circuitry of their vision-processing neurons to an exquisite pocket watch.
He likened that of mammals, by comparison, to a hollow-chested grandfather clock. Indeed, it is humbling to think that a honeybee, with its milligram-size brain, can perform tasks such as navigating mazes and landscapes on a par with mammals. A honeybee may be limited by having comparatively few neurons, but it surely seems to squeeze everything it can out of them. At the other extreme, an elephant, with its five-million-fold larger brain, suffers the inefficiencies of a sprawling Mesopotamian empire. A Mystery: Why Can't We Walk Straight? How to increase serotonin in the human brain without drugs.
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Attempting to get to the root of the problem, scientists recently came up with an extraordinary solution: They built a schizophrenic computer. Burundanga: The Drug Against Free Will. Multitasking:This is your Brain on Media.