A dolphin's brain outweighs a human's and folds harder than any primate's on Earth — and dolphins st…
A dolphin's brain outweighs a human's and folds harder than any primate's on Earth — and dolphins still don't keep humans in tanks. The instinct that says "it must be about wiring, not size" is right. What it isn't is simple, and the first specific mechanism offered for it (this page included, initially) turned out to be backwards. Brain mass alone was abandoned as an intelligence proxy by neuroscience decades ago — there's a whole correction factor (encephalization quotient) built specifically because whales, elephants, and dolphins all have bigger brains than humans and clearly aren't running civilizations. The interesting question was never "why doesn't size predict it," that part's settled. It's what actually does — and 2025–2026's biggest shift in how AI models get built is, unexpectedly, a live test of the same underlying claim. https://begump.com/research/lesser-dolphins/
