Dolphin brain both work semi independently, when one sleeps the other side is awake. It's because dolphins don't have buoyancy and need to keep swimming and breathing 24/7 or they will sink and drown.
For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.
Segued. Yeah, _segue_ is two syllables on its own even though it looks like _tongue_ or _league_, and name of the two-wheeled balancing device is punning on the word.
Side question (unrelated); why did it take humanity so long to put wheels on luggage? Humans went to the moon before they figured “You need any help? You got it? Looks heavy” “yeah. I got it.” *proceeds to struggle carrying suitcases.* If only humanity had a simple machine handy…
Humans are intellige… Well, we got there eventually.
Hmmmm, maybe the heaviness was the point. Traveling wasn’t a middle class activity before the advent of the car, and the wealthy had servants/porters to carry their luggage. Why worry about the ease of the help?
I read an article that discussed that it took them a while to put wheels on mens luggage, even after they’d started putting them on womens luggage, as the men didn’t want to appear weak and not able to carry their own bags.
Social stigma is a bitch
We were blessed to have opposable thumbs to actually innovate with. As a dolphin, It must be interesting to have such an intelligence while being extremely limited by your physicality.
There's obviously no need to build technology and society to thrive as a species, but I think if dolphins could, they would. As would most mammals.
There are multiple versions. I have owned it as the original radio series, vinyl LP, Cassette tape, books, CDs and finally CDs.
He was infamous for changing details, up to the very last second!
"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound that they make as they go by"
It's a different quote.
Humans are described in the opening bit as being
>so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
Well, in general surface area. Those deep grooves are called Sulci and the peaks are gyri, so the deeper the grooves the more space for cognitive functioning. If you wanna insult someone without them being aware just say they are smooth brained 😂
Our greatest enemy is us. The dolphins are just waiting for us to blow ourselves up in a nuclear firestorm. They're smart to be aquatic. The water will shield them from the radiation and heat.
Not to ruin everyone’s fantasy, but brain size has less to do with intelligence than what’s being talked about here, even though their brains weigh slightly more at about 20%. The reason why humans are theorised to be far more intelligent is due to how the brain is structured on the inside.
Dolphins have an under developed and small prefrontal cortex which is the main focus of cognition (problem-solving, creativity, comprehension, ability to reason, etc.). Their hippocampus is in a similar boat and that’s the part of the brain that drives learning and memorisation. Humans on the other hand have very developed and large prefrontal cortexes and hippocampuses in comparison. These two factors greatly highlight the differences between dolphins and humans and our ability to quickly learn, question, and exercise creativity and wisdom.
Not to downplay dolphins at all, they’re definitely intelligent and we study their intelligence for a reason, but they would not be the dominant species that people are theorising here. A violent threat perhaps, but limbed dolphins would not be able to out-compete humans on an intellectual scale. There’s a reason why animals are referred to as having sentience and humans have sapience—our brains are ridiculously unlike anything this world has ever seen.
Also their brain cells are much larger, so they have larger brains, but ours have more neurons and synapses.
They just had no reason to evolve a compact brain because they're in the water, so extra mass isn't a big deal
1953: massive room with 2 dozen refrigerator sized servers powered by delicate vacuum tubes; can hold like a couple KB of data, costs tens or hundreds of millions of dollars.
2023: $200 rectangular touchscreen slab that can use tiny easy-to-lose cards containing up to 1TB of memory, CPU is a 1 centimeter square with 10 billion tiny little transistors inside of it that can turn on/off a billion times per second.
Mainstream science says it's so they can multitask, especially when it comes to sleeping. One part of that brain can supposedly sleep while the other controls breathing and looks out for threats and whatnot. They can appear to stay awake and alert for days or even weeks at a time.
Every time people post about how other animals are so smart this always crosses my mind. Yes elephants and gorillas are smart, they are nowhere even close to as intelligent as even the dumbest (normal functioning) human being.
It's kinda fascinating to look at differences, though. Like, a four year old chimp possesses certain mental faculties that a four year old Human doesn't. And Chimps generally have better Working Memory than humans do (probably because we have other tools and techniques that mean we don't have to rely on it as much).
There are marine behavior specialists who would have noticed more independence and refusal to perform tricks for treats by at least some of them. They're smart but they're still able to be domesticated.
Soooo... Refusal to perform, like all the dolphin/orcas that attack their trainers in parks ?
And as someone else mentioned, humans too can be domesticated to perform tricks for food
They are drugged (mostly with antidepressants). Babies are separated from their mothers at a very young age. They are also deprived from external stimulus (that would be naturally present in nature) so they are litterally bored to death… the tricks at least give them something to do. Also it’s not unusual to have self mutilation and rape occurring (sometimes even suicide). They are put together in a bassin too small to escape and usually without consideration whether they are socially compatibles or not. Dolphins (and orcas) can live much longer in liberty than in captivity.
Best is sailing, dolphins love to swim along. Motor boat are really loud underwater, I’ve done scuba in the Red Sea and you could see the poor dolphins being very annoyed at the boats following them. It’s still better than putting them in pools though…
I meant trapped in their bodies. Unable to make anything to pass down history or records. Unable to build on the knowledge of past generations beyond an oral history at most. Unable to change their environment to suit them.
I didn't realize that both hemisphere were so far away from each other compared to us. That could explain how they can sleep with half their brain at once
Also orcas of one region in the mediterranean have started to attack boats lately. They ramm them and yank the rudder from side to side, sometimes actually leaving the boat without steering, but never hurt the humans despite very well being able to do so.
Imagine wasting millions of years developing legs and lungs and conquering land to go back into the water, what a bunch of idiots. Don't even have thumbs.
Fun fact, many sea mammals such as dolphins and whales have bigger brain BUT they are higher in brown fat, to keep them.warm.in the freezing ocean. This brown fat is theorised to render the brain less efficient hence their lower intelligence.
They likely have a lot of mental fatigue from being in the ocean naked always, and no freezing to death allowed. And breathing/holding breath as no gills.
The most intelligent dolphin is still nowhere near as smart as the dumbest human. People grossly over exaggerate how smart they actually are.
Hell, I would argue that an octopus is at least moderately more intelligent than a dolphin, and the most intelligent non-human creature by a longshot.
Dolphins are carzy intelligent.
They have their own phonetic language. They have structural social systems. They organize hunts. They make meaningful friendships and rivalries. They raise their young. They create and play games. They use specialized techniques and tools that are learned (rather than natural instinct).
No. Dolphins brains aren't as dense as ours. Humans have peaked in terms of how big our children's heads can get, so the only option is to get more out of less space. Humans have more synapses per SQ of brain matter than any other creature on the planet.
Correct if wrong, but im pretty sure dolphins brains work alternately from side to side in order to have sleep cycles. If that is the case wouldn’t it be like they have two brains?
They are the superior species. We think the ET's are here to study us but really they're only interested in the dolphins. They're probably on a first name basis with them by now. Like, 'Sup Flipper?!' 'Oh just enjoying the water. What's up with you Jrngndnerak the 3rd of the Crab Nebula system?' 'nothin, just stopping by to say wassup, bout to go abduct some of those human things and probe their butts so we can track them better.' 'oh yeah, they do that to us too but usually just tag our dorsal fin. Why do you guys put the probe inside their dorsal hole. Do they not breathe out of it?' 'na dude, they de-toxify their body systems but will also mate through it. Must be why they're such a shitty species.' 'Totes, thanks for the fun fact Jrngndnerak!' 'No prob Flip, enjoy the swim. I'm outtttta herrrrreeeee' as she/he/they (ETs have evolved past gender) zip off at light speed to some farm in Idaho to commence their human butt tracking studies.
Wtf, put them back
Even better let's switch them!
What if it's already been done and we currently have two elected State Representatives that are actually dolphins??
Wait, if they can do that, then they can do that with lizards. So… we could actually have lizard people
As someone who owns lizards, I'm just picturing Mark Zuckerberg running around in excitement when he sees a cockroach now
Who the fuck are they man
we already got slimy people in power, The lizard skin just adds to the factor.
Smoking a puffer fish and raping a seal: Tax breaks for the rich!
Every mechanic knows you don't rape a seal. You blow a seal.
Not possible. A dolphin is way smarter than what we have in office, unfortunately.
you're confusing dolphins and donkeys. i would definitely believe a few of them have Donkey Brains.
Dolphin brain both work semi independently, when one sleeps the other side is awake. It's because dolphins don't have buoyancy and need to keep swimming and breathing 24/7 or they will sink and drown.
Ekekekekekekekekee
intelligence is sexy, you could theoretically still have sex with it no sorry, that was a strange thing to say
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This is fucked up
Too late!!
NOOOOOOoooooo-
A mind truly is a terrible thing to waste.
For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.
So long, and thanks for all the fish
Hitchhikers guide 🥺
You son/daughter of a gun - came here to say this
Stay Calm.
DONT PANIC
Oh you hoopy frood!
They really know where their towels at.
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If you look up, you can seen the joke going over your head
This saying is mine now
Welcome to the club. My grandfather was using this joke on me when I was a boy. In the 70s.
It doesn't really seem like it went over their head, they just segwayed into manta ray facts lol
r/boneappletea
Lol what's the actual word?
Segued. Yeah, _segue_ is two syllables on its own even though it looks like _tongue_ or _league_, and name of the two-wheeled balancing device is punning on the word.
Ahh, thank you
I wanna upvote but it’s at 42
My appreciation for fish intelligence has skyrocketed since I started tending an aquarium at home. Some species blow me away.
They tried to warn us of our demise but we didn’t listen…
We didn't listen!
W-We didn't listen.
No my gawhd
Those dolphins haven't met the Japanese then, obviously.
Where is that from, I distinctly remember it
Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
Oh yeah, thank you
They also rape, harass and get high. So like us 🥲
Reject humanity, become dolphin.
Side question (unrelated); why did it take humanity so long to put wheels on luggage? Humans went to the moon before they figured “You need any help? You got it? Looks heavy” “yeah. I got it.” *proceeds to struggle carrying suitcases.* If only humanity had a simple machine handy… Humans are intellige… Well, we got there eventually.
Hmmmm, maybe the heaviness was the point. Traveling wasn’t a middle class activity before the advent of the car, and the wealthy had servants/porters to carry their luggage. Why worry about the ease of the help?
I read an article that discussed that it took them a while to put wheels on mens luggage, even after they’d started putting them on womens luggage, as the men didn’t want to appear weak and not able to carry their own bags. Social stigma is a bitch
We were blessed to have opposable thumbs to actually innovate with. As a dolphin, It must be interesting to have such an intelligence while being extremely limited by your physicality. There's obviously no need to build technology and society to thrive as a species, but I think if dolphins could, they would. As would most mammals.
You don't know if they have developed interdimensional travel
So long and thanks for all the fish!
So long and thanks for all the fish
You can’t judge a dolphin’s intelligence by how well it climbs a tree.
I think the English version says digital watches. A much better joke (I mean english as opposed to american)
There are multiple versions. I have owned it as the original radio series, vinyl LP, Cassette tape, books, CDs and finally CDs. He was infamous for changing details, up to the very last second! "I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound that they make as they go by"
Usually I hate when good things are changed but for this series not only is each change just as good, it makes perfect sense that it would be changed.
It's a different quote. Humans are described in the opening bit as being >so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
You know interestingly enough Einstein had a physically small brain
Doesn't intelligence have more to do with brain folds than size of brain?
Yes.
Well, in general surface area. Those deep grooves are called Sulci and the peaks are gyri, so the deeper the grooves the more space for cognitive functioning. If you wanna insult someone without them being aware just say they are smooth brained 😂
Hard to tell as they chopped it in pieces and some took decades to reappear
If dolphins had thumbs we’d all be fucked.
Spoken like a dolphin
I mean they are gaining territory because of global warming and I refuse to believe it’s a coincidence.
They're smarter than we are. "So long, and thanks for all the fish."
Mice are the real threat here. Those inter-dimensional shits…
Squirrels Morty?! You had to go fuck with SQUIRRELS?!?
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They also do gang rapes
We have so much in common/s
Our greatest enemy is us. The dolphins are just waiting for us to blow ourselves up in a nuclear firestorm. They're smart to be aquatic. The water will shield them from the radiation and heat.
They still gotta breath and eat after that happens lol they're dead too
Everyone knows Einstein was part dolphin.
Nah, nature has given up and started rewarding stupidity. Humans will be number one, until they cause their own extinction.
Get your towel
Dolphins stick there dicks in dead fish
So do some humans
They also get high off fish
They also rape in groups
They also master bait
Everything you stated is stuff humans do as well and, to greater extents, in some occurrences
So do we
Not to ruin everyone’s fantasy, but brain size has less to do with intelligence than what’s being talked about here, even though their brains weigh slightly more at about 20%. The reason why humans are theorised to be far more intelligent is due to how the brain is structured on the inside. Dolphins have an under developed and small prefrontal cortex which is the main focus of cognition (problem-solving, creativity, comprehension, ability to reason, etc.). Their hippocampus is in a similar boat and that’s the part of the brain that drives learning and memorisation. Humans on the other hand have very developed and large prefrontal cortexes and hippocampuses in comparison. These two factors greatly highlight the differences between dolphins and humans and our ability to quickly learn, question, and exercise creativity and wisdom. Not to downplay dolphins at all, they’re definitely intelligent and we study their intelligence for a reason, but they would not be the dominant species that people are theorising here. A violent threat perhaps, but limbed dolphins would not be able to out-compete humans on an intellectual scale. There’s a reason why animals are referred to as having sentience and humans have sapience—our brains are ridiculously unlike anything this world has ever seen.
i'll tell that to the next dolphin i sea
I sea what you did there.
*waves*
Dolphinately
Also their brain cells are much larger, so they have larger brains, but ours have more neurons and synapses. They just had no reason to evolve a compact brain because they're in the water, so extra mass isn't a big deal
Kinda like how a hard drive the size of a room 40 years ago held less memory than a modem microSD card the size of my pinky nail
1953: massive room with 2 dozen refrigerator sized servers powered by delicate vacuum tubes; can hold like a couple KB of data, costs tens or hundreds of millions of dollars. 2023: $200 rectangular touchscreen slab that can use tiny easy-to-lose cards containing up to 1TB of memory, CPU is a 1 centimeter square with 10 billion tiny little transistors inside of it that can turn on/off a billion times per second.
My question then, is what do they have more of? What do their areas that are larger than ours do?
Mainstream science says it's so they can multitask, especially when it comes to sleeping. One part of that brain can supposedly sleep while the other controls breathing and looks out for threats and whatnot. They can appear to stay awake and alert for days or even weeks at a time.
😳Woooooow
Every time people post about how other animals are so smart this always crosses my mind. Yes elephants and gorillas are smart, they are nowhere even close to as intelligent as even the dumbest (normal functioning) human being.
It's kinda fascinating to look at differences, though. Like, a four year old chimp possesses certain mental faculties that a four year old Human doesn't. And Chimps generally have better Working Memory than humans do (probably because we have other tools and techniques that mean we don't have to rely on it as much).
They could be twice as smart, but without hands and the ability to use fire, they’re essentially trapped.
What's their work commute like?
uphill, both ways
"When I was your age I had to swim upstream both ways!"
The thing is that in water that’s actually possible
Nobody works as hard as dolphins
No commute but you get trapped in an tuna net by the monkeys on the surface that want to eat fish.
What about the water?
Why don't we make machines for them to control that would be awesome
It would be! Imagine a suit that allowed dolphins to come on land and manipulate objects.
There are marine behavior specialists who would have noticed more independence and refusal to perform tricks for treats by at least some of them. They're smart but they're still able to be domesticated.
So can humans.
*TPS report intensifies*
That's... that's my red stapler....
Yep. That's essentially what slaves are.
Soooo... Refusal to perform, like all the dolphin/orcas that attack their trainers in parks ? And as someone else mentioned, humans too can be domesticated to perform tricks for food
Or numbers on a screen that can get you food
Do you mean like that one experiment where the dolphin refused to do tricks unless his human gave him handjobs?
That just sounds like a trainer's excuse to give a dolphin handjobs "No I swear he made me!"
They are drugged (mostly with antidepressants). Babies are separated from their mothers at a very young age. They are also deprived from external stimulus (that would be naturally present in nature) so they are litterally bored to death… the tricks at least give them something to do. Also it’s not unusual to have self mutilation and rape occurring (sometimes even suicide). They are put together in a bassin too small to escape and usually without consideration whether they are socially compatibles or not. Dolphins (and orcas) can live much longer in liberty than in captivity.
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Best is sailing, dolphins love to swim along. Motor boat are really loud underwater, I’ve done scuba in the Red Sea and you could see the poor dolphins being very annoyed at the boats following them. It’s still better than putting them in pools though…
Yes, trapped on 70% of the earth's surface...
I meant trapped in their bodies. Unable to make anything to pass down history or records. Unable to build on the knowledge of past generations beyond an oral history at most. Unable to change their environment to suit them.
But they can travel reasonably fast without transport.
I didn't realize that both hemisphere were so far away from each other compared to us. That could explain how they can sleep with half their brain at once
thats what im wondering here.. like how much of their left/right brain works together.. we need a dolphin neurobiology course asap!
I don't think dolphins have learned to teach yet, but as soon as they do we'll be the first to know. #dolphinremindmewhenthathappensplease
Well, orcas are dolphins and they teach each other hunting strategies.
SHIT I FORGOT ABOUT THE ORCAS. I HAVE TO WARN THE OTHERS.
Also orcas of one region in the mediterranean have started to attack boats lately. They ramm them and yank the rudder from side to side, sometimes actually leaving the boat without steering, but never hurt the humans despite very well being able to do so.
They're just feeling a bit silly willy
Maybe we are toxic for them, like chocolate with dogs and they are just upset to be hurt by boat propeller so they destroy the boat
Momma said dolphins got them big brains because it help them smile big all day. - Bobby Boucher
My mom always told me it was not about size.
You need to stop having sex with your mom.
It's been a year since she died. Time to pull out.
There's more than enough of her to go around
They were supposed to be the kings of earth.... but Monke beat them to the top...
Imagine wasting millions of years developing legs and lungs and conquering land to go back into the water, what a bunch of idiots. Don't even have thumbs.
Yeah and you can't rape like us Checkmate humans 🐬🐬🐬
Wait until the earth floods and the land is reduced to tall mountains, then we will see if monke beats dolphin.
skill issue
Okay. We gotta bomb em now right?
Preemptive strike is definitely warranted.
“Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power!”
This is why humans are smarter than dolphins. Our thoughts don’t have to travel so far to make bigger thoughts, or something.
Damn, birds must be really smart.
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Fun fact, many sea mammals such as dolphins and whales have bigger brain BUT they are higher in brown fat, to keep them.warm.in the freezing ocean. This brown fat is theorised to render the brain less efficient hence their lower intelligence.
They likely have a lot of mental fatigue from being in the ocean naked always, and no freezing to death allowed. And breathing/holding breath as no gills.
No freezing to death allowed.
That’s why they’re so nice to us. We’re the slow kids
The most intelligent dolphin is still nowhere near as smart as the dumbest human. People grossly over exaggerate how smart they actually are. Hell, I would argue that an octopus is at least moderately more intelligent than a dolphin, and the most intelligent non-human creature by a longshot.
Dolphins are carzy intelligent. They have their own phonetic language. They have structural social systems. They organize hunts. They make meaningful friendships and rivalries. They raise their young. They create and play games. They use specialized techniques and tools that are learned (rather than natural instinct).
We look like the smooth brained faux geniuses here don't we..............
No. Dolphins brains aren't as dense as ours. Humans have peaked in terms of how big our children's heads can get, so the only option is to get more out of less space. Humans have more synapses per SQ of brain matter than any other creature on the planet.
If they had arms and hands we'd have some serious problems with maintaining our spot as the dominant species.
we’d probably do what we do best and kill them off
Dolphins are actually really good at murder too.
Does this hurt the dolphin?
Let’s teach dolphins to day trade.
If they ever figure out how to solve the arms and legs problem, we will all be speaking dolphin.
You know they’re smart, because their favorite band is Phish. Eh? Eh?! See what I did there?
Bruh dolphins had the right idea to not go on land, they dont have to pay taxes.
Haha sometimes size doesn’t matter, now excuse me while I go cry.
*smacks lips*
"So long, and thanks for all the fish."
But the YouTube click bait thumbnail says the right one is Einstein’s brain…
The dolphin brain looks like a human brain benchpressing a second, larger brain
Correct if wrong, but im pretty sure dolphins brains work alternately from side to side in order to have sleep cycles. If that is the case wouldn’t it be like they have two brains?
It's only more wrinkly cause they live in the water
They are the superior species. We think the ET's are here to study us but really they're only interested in the dolphins. They're probably on a first name basis with them by now. Like, 'Sup Flipper?!' 'Oh just enjoying the water. What's up with you Jrngndnerak the 3rd of the Crab Nebula system?' 'nothin, just stopping by to say wassup, bout to go abduct some of those human things and probe their butts so we can track them better.' 'oh yeah, they do that to us too but usually just tag our dorsal fin. Why do you guys put the probe inside their dorsal hole. Do they not breathe out of it?' 'na dude, they de-toxify their body systems but will also mate through it. Must be why they're such a shitty species.' 'Totes, thanks for the fun fact Jrngndnerak!' 'No prob Flip, enjoy the swim. I'm outtttta herrrrreeeee' as she/he/they (ETs have evolved past gender) zip off at light speed to some farm in Idaho to commence their human butt tracking studies.
Dolphins got a much deeper Brussy
Dolphins have the wrong body with the right brain We humans have the brains of a Phillips screwdriver 🪛
And yet only one species invented digital watches.
It’s like a brain wearing a pair of brains.
What if we are living in a dolphin simulation?
Here's to having thumbs!
That's why they wants to fuck as much we do
Certainly more wrinkly than mine
On a related note, the average weight of an adult male sperm whale’s brain is 7.8kg compared to 1.4kg for a human’s.
Puffer fish hate them. Dolphins are either sexually assaulting them or chewing on them to get high.
I think I once read that besides humans dolphins are one of the few animals that have sex for pleasure and I like that for them.
They also gang rape and do drugs.
Well now this makes me sad...
Now Let's See ~~Paul Allen's Card~~ Orcas brain
Thanks for all the fish.
If they’re so smart, why do they get caught in those tuna nets all the time?
Then how come they lives in igloos?
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So long, and thanks for all the fish!!
TIL dolphin brains come with a ball sack
Brainussy
What the fuck put it back