I think human neural cells are ‘just better’; there’s some evidence in mice to this effect:
We found that the human glial chimeras indeed performed better than control mice across a variety of learning tasks, that included auditory fear conditioning, novel object and place recognition, and Barnes maze navigation. In all of these tests—but not in any test of social interactivity or primary perception—the human glial chimeras performed better and acquired new causal associations more quickly than did murine-allografted or untransplanted controls (Han et al., 2013). In short, they learned more rapidly, and at least along the axes of the tests performed, could be defined—if colloquially so—as smarter. As such, these glial chimeras may provide us a viable—if provocative—model by which to evaluate the species-specific contributions of human glia to human cognition.
Absolutely fascinating link—strong upvote! Han et al.,2013 did not investigate motor control and motion planning, but I agree that human neural cells probably are just better, though possibly requiring more energy.
From martial arts, I’m convinced people have different innate levels of motor control and motion planning, and this helps nontrivially in fights. However, brains and muscles both require energy, and I’d generally give the advantage to the person with +1std muscles over the person with +1std motor control, assuming both are untrained.
I think human neural cells are ‘just better’; there’s some evidence in mice to this effect:
Absolutely fascinating link—strong upvote! Han et al.,2013 did not investigate motor control and motion planning, but I agree that human neural cells probably are just better, though possibly requiring more energy.
From martial arts, I’m convinced people have different innate levels of motor control and motion planning, and this helps nontrivially in fights. However, brains and muscles both require energy, and I’d generally give the advantage to the person with +1std muscles over the person with +1std motor control, assuming both are untrained.