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		FeteCommuniste 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What If We Had Bigger Brains? Imagining Minds Beyo... Reminds me of how Aristotle thought that the brain’s purpose was to cool the blood.

zabzonk 6 months ago [–]

You know this, but it just shows that geniuses like Aristotle can be completely wrong - most of our body is trying to cool the brain!

xandrius 6 months ago | [–]

Even coming up with a plausible wild guess takes some skill.

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