[Dave] The guy from Oxford who was studying the social aspects of brain development noted that chimps on average can keep track of about 50 other individuals while humans max out at about 150. Also that while chimps can understand to some degree the intentions of one or maybe two other individuals at the same time humans can think about the intentions of 6 or 7 other individuals before they max out. And this seem to be a physical limitation of processing power.
[Krimel] Exactly, Michael Shermer goes into the importance of group size in his book, "The Science of Good and Evil." That issue of 150 people is very important. It is doubtful that we would have civilization without having found a way to overcome this limitation. Our superpowers all arise from the relative complexity of our nervous systems. I think you have put your finger on it right there in your last sentence with that marvelous product of the modern Mythos, "processing power." Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
