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Dr. James Cole - Stone Tools & Cognition

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The Complexity of Brain Size

There's been sort of a suggestion and idea that brain size is shrinking. We are off what we call or what sort of those in the artificial intelligence community call off-loaded cognition. Routine is the way of off-loading cognition. It's just something you kind of go into automatic pilot on. But my point here is if you're off-loading a lot of this stuff onto our technology, then you don't need to have these potentially large brains.

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