A mainstay of 20th-century age-of-anxiety complaints was that our world was becoming too complex for anyone to keep track of or feel like a relevant participant in, full of strange and byzantine distances between individuals and the grand global forces affecting us.
These days, however, modern applications are becoming far more complex and need to keep track of lots of relationships between things.
The idea behind the so-called social intelligence hypothesis is that we need pretty complex computers in our skulls to keep track of all the complex relationships we have with each other who's a friend, who's an enemy, who's higher in the social ranks.
For example, he avoids technical jargon, writes in a manner that is lively and rich in examples rather than dry and abstract, and has no large, complex system for the reader to keep track of.
Complex engineering control systems usually need to keep track of their own performance; an intelligent robot would offer just this sort of reflexive capability.
For example, one graduate student, Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan, came up with the software code that tells REX how to keep track of complex radio wave data and help New Horizons store and transmit this information with a minimum of data corruption.
So fast and complex as to be almost impossible to keep track of".
When you start having employees, freelancers, invoicing terms, and more complex balance sheets, hiring an accountant to keep track of the money stuff is a good idea.
The Americans has a reputation for being pretty politically complex, where it can be hard to keep track of what's going on.
Bird song – and the ability of some birds to even mimic human speech – lends itself to high levels of intelligence as does the extreme sociability seen in many birds, requiring them to keep track of a complex avian hierarchy.
According to Eichenbaum, this finding foreshadows human ability to keep track of evolving, complex situations— changing social landscapes or shifting political loyalties, for example.
