And also, this was an interesting exploration of the topic, with in utero electroporation of cortical matter to induce more brain growth: http://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/11034136.pdf
> Of course, human intelligence is hard to pin down -- for my personal definition
I suggest giving up on that question. Even if humans are not intelligent, there's at least one or a few properties of human brain matter that are causing all of these unexpected and unexplained results we observe from its operation.
Well, less than impossibly hard. Here's an interesting spin on this argument: http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/ai/How%20hard%20is%20artific...
On a related note: http://fennetic.net/irc/human_chimpanzee_brain_differences.p...
And also, this was an interesting exploration of the topic, with in utero electroporation of cortical matter to induce more brain growth: http://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/11034136.pdf
> Of course, human intelligence is hard to pin down -- for my personal definition
I suggest giving up on that question. Even if humans are not intelligent, there's at least one or a few properties of human brain matter that are causing all of these unexpected and unexplained results we observe from its operation.