Design principles and operational modes are explored that underlie the information processing capacity of the human brain. The hypothesis is put forward that in higher organisms, especially in primates, the complexity of the neural circuitry of the cerebral cortex is the neural correlate of the brain’s coherence and predictive power, and, thus, a measure of intelligence. It will be argued that with the evolution of the human brain we have nearly reached the limits of biological intelligence.
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Hofman, M. A. (2015). Evolution of the human brain: From matter to mind. In Handbook of Intelligence: Evolutionary Theory, Historical Perspective, and Current Concepts (pp. 65–82). Springer New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1562-0_5
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