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A Chimp With Human Neurons Would Invent Theology

If you gave a chimp as many neurons as a human with the same cortical-to-limbic distribution, it would inevitably invent theology, philosophy, and aesthetics—an unrecognizable version, but it would pop out automatically—because with enough simple building blocks such complexity emerges, illustrating that even our loftiest cultural products are just emergent consequences of neuron quantity.

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Speaker

Robert Sapolsky

Evidence Quote

with enough of those pieces... just throw enough pieces in there together and you get people who are willing to kill each other over like trickle down economics

Source

360 - We Really Don T Have Free WillMaking Sense with Sam Harris
Created: 6/14/2026, 2:19:39 AM

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