Your muscles get bigger when you use them; brain does not. Human muscles are the oddity here - most animals don't get stronger by exercise because they have a single defined role; humans have such variable roles that your body needs cues from use to decide how to use resources.
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon
Maybe our brains don't get bigger, but they get more connected. Your liver doesn't 2x like your biceps do, but it certainly gets better at processing something you keep giving it.
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Replying to @Molson_Hart
Training a limited system to be more efficient at a specific task is certainly possible; you can improve at any skill - that's what learning is. Learning skills absolutely doesn't translate into improving your overall mental acuity.
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon
Isn't that kind of analogous to muscles though? If you practice pushups, it won't help much with your pull-ups.
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Replying to @Molson_Hart
It's not analogous because muscles aren't a limited system. You build new muscle tissue This is extremely rare in animals and is a consequence of humans having varied roles and the danger of starvation - it lets your body cheap out on expensive muscle tissue that would be unused
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon
But, don't you think something new is being built within the brain? Interesting re: animals.
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Replying to @Molson_Hart @CovfefeAnon
So, I'm pretty sure I could train an ape to get stronger, but I kind of feel like I could do the same with a dog as well. It's not that animals can't train their bodies or minds, it's that they just don't.
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Replying to @Molson_Hart
I don't think you can train a gorilla to be stronger - at least it's not something that anyone has ever proven possible Animals will adapt to circumstances but not by training exactly; birds get fatter in the winter, animals will lose fat under predator threat Training=signal
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon
My gut says it's possible. All living species are adaptable. There are definitely before-and-after pictures on the internet of muscular dogs and horses though most of those are attributed to supplements.
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Replying to @Molson_Hart
My intuition is the opposite - training burns calories for no other goal than to improve physical performance in the future to gain a better ability obtain calories (or avoid predators) - evolution would select strongly against Only humans have the reversed selective pressure
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Basically, always give you the minimum performance that keeps you alive to minimize calories *then* add on muscle as needed to perform the needed labor to keep you alive. Humans have a very weird environment compared to animals.
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon
If a dog is doing something repeatedly, it's probably because it needs to survive and those the body would allocate resources towards making the dog better at that thing. I'm going to ask Twitter.
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Replying to @Molson_Hart
Dogs are kind of a weird case because they have the same basic survival profile as humans - as long as a dog keeps his master happy, he gets fed. Cats would be a better test case because they're closer to wild and can go feral with no problem.
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