A working notebook on how nervous systems turn matter into mind. It starts at the basal ganglia and ends, for now, inside the brain of a cleaner shrimp. The claim it keeps testing:
Intelligence does not appear at a threshold of neuron count. It appears wherever a nervous system learns to select — to take in more than it can act on, and to compress the surplus into a decision.
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