[extropy-chat] RE: Re: Intelligent Designand IrriducibleComplexity

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Kevin Freels <megaquark at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Another thought on ants: An ant brain has about 250,000 brain cells.
> A human brain has about 10,000 million. So a colony of 40,000 ants
has
> a collective brain roughly the size of a human. (Can't remember the
> source)

Of course, not only does a colony of ants have a lot more legs to worry
about, the fact that each unit of 250k brain cells is not synaptically
linked to the others. Its like having 40,000 hemispheres in the human brain.

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Mike Lorrey
Chairman, Free Town Land Development
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                         -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
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