My thoughts exactly!
I couldn't agree more!
Clearly getting energy into the body isn't a limiting factor - you only have to look at the vast volume of excess-calorie-munchers waddling down the street.
That leaves a biochemical issue with converting the energies into a usable flow to the brain. However, even that I'm dubious about for two reasons:
1) Were Einstein, Newton and Galileo's brains 'bigger' in volume than the average 'thicko'? I doubt it
2) If Homo Neandertalis had a bigger brain that functioned, then it would seem it is biochemically possible to support a bigger brain given sufficient energy.
I therefore conclude that this whole article is flawed. I think I'm relatively intelligent, but no-where near as sharp as say Prof. Stephen Hawkings - so there is clear room for increasing existing capacities within similar brain-sizes. What I'd like to know is what percentage of Prof. Hawkings Brain is being used. Until we have people that we're sure are using 100% of their capacity and have brains the size of Homo Neandertalis, then clearly there IS room for improvement so far as mental capacity goes.
