What If We Had Bigger Brains? Imagining Minds beyond Ours—Stephen Wolfram Writings
Stephen Wolfram explores how the number of neural connections affects capabilities like language and abstraction. How far we could go accounting for neural nets and LLMS, the fundamental nature of computation, neuroscience and the operation of brains.
Contents Top Cats Don’t Talk How Brains Seem to Work Language and Beyond Sensors and Actuators Abstraction Computational Language Many Brains Together: The Formation of Society Minds beyond Ours What If We Had Bigger Brains? Imagining Minds beyond Ours What If We Had Bigger Brains? Imagining Minds beyond Ours PODCAST VIDEO What If We Had Bigger Brains? Imagining Minds beyond Ours May 21, 2025 Cats Don’t Talk We humans have perhaps 100 billion neurons in our brains. But what if we had many more? Or what if the AIs we built effectively had many more? What kinds of things might then become possib
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