The human brain reached its limits
According to a study undertaken by the university of Cambridge, the capacities of the human brain would have reached their limits. According to these researchers, it would be physically impossible for the human being to become more intelligent. In the long term, our brain should even become smaller than it is it today.
It is by analyzing the structure of the brain and the energy which it consumes that this conclusion was drawn. “We showed that the brain must consume much energy to function and that these requirements are sufficiently important to limit our performances”, explains Simon Laughlin, professor of neurobiology.
“To still develop its brain, one would need even more energy to go further in the relations than it can build”, continues he.
“Such an energy demand does not seem to be with our range, which means that there is a limit with our development.”
Other scientists, who see the brain like a network of “wiring”, abound in the same direction. For them, the most intelligent people connect already information at a speed already very high. And they as claim as to become more intelligent, one would need a great quantity of energy, which we cannot produce.
End of the human evolution?
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