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Yes, distribution is a big problem. Tons of food go to waste every day because it doesn't go where it is needed in time. Not to mention political factors in which such Resources are held basically in ransom to maintain power.

Actually the US is already working on Mechas, particularly all terrain type vehicles. One example is http://www.mechaps.com/ Also other countries like South Korea are virtually neck to neck with Japan on robotics and A.I. development.

So what do you think Jude Law's character in the movie A.I. primary function was? Never mind the economic factors that will practically make it sell itself... They already have dehumidifier water machines, they just call them AirWater Machines. This fish thing is a real problem but they are working on solutions and we won't have a problem with droughts unless you're in a poor area since we can extract fresh water from just about any source. Like turning sea water into fresh water, etc. So as need arises it'll get done... Populationg growth seems to be slowing but who knows... though we are more likely to colonize the moon before we colonize the artic otherwise the polar bears will solve the overpopulation problem real quick.

Well that's assuming Takaya ever uses the Exceed again, it may have been a one off just to deal with Khan. Though I like the idea that Sho could be unlocking some features since I thought he was holding back since the beginning. But in any case it could take a very long time before we are shown any more details. Just for example it took up to Exceed before we found out that the shoulder pod spikes are gravitational stabilizers like the Relic has to help it fly. Let's just hope it doesn't take another 10-15 books before we find out more stuff like that

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Yes, as you probably know this is a fan site based around a fan fiction based on the Guyver story. The original is a Manga Comic series that has been published since the mid-80's (so has over 25 volumes/books and is still going) and has had an OAV mini-series, an OAV movie, 2 live action movies, and one season of an anime series created for it so far. P.S.> Check guyverfanatic's signature for info on how to go about getting the Manga.

An interesting possible side note to the quantum entanglement possibility. It's innate instability could actually explain why the Exceed isn't the Gigantic's standard form. With a relative stability level being the result of the Gigantic but an act of will to change the quantum state to induce the Exceed. So in a way the Exceed becomes a manifestation of the host will, just made possible through the Gigantic technology. Anyway, I think we are coming to a consensus of thinking of the Gigantic basically growing and enlarging itself with internalized energy and just have to work out the mechanics of how this translates into the Exceed. The quantum entanglement could be one method by which the cells could augment themselves for whatever size is needed and would be directly proportional to the charge of energy achieved. Rapid cellular growth could be another, though less likely. A scalable molecular structure that simply grows and expands as needed is yet another possibility. Though to help YoungGuyver's line of thought, if the Gigantic can make the unit's molecular structure multi-dimensional then a complex dimensional matrix could be the basic structure and allow dimensional shift. However this could basically make the Exceed indestructible but then again it did withstand everything that Khan threw at him, even if he was almost knocked out at one point.

The Exceed pretty much just shrunk until normal size and then the Gigantic deactivated and then the Guyver deactivated, leaving Sho standing on top of the rubble and the reporters came down to check him out. Quantum entanglement is actually a pretty good possibility, scientists are making interesting strides in using it to make objects not seen in nature. Such as larger molecules, similar to Bose-Einstein Condensation by linking multiple atoms so they behave as a single super atom. Quantum entanglement is not limited to teleportation, it simply means two objects are quantumly linked to the point they act as one, like mirrors what happens to one happens to the other, etc. It is the instantaneous transfer of information that can exactly mirror the original that makes it applicable to teleportation. The only thing is quantum fields are inherently unstable on large scales but if you could increase the uncertainty factor you could apply quantum effects to virtually any size object. An appropriate related source of research is the theory that dark matter is actually a result of the quantum field in the vacuum of space. Essentially virtual particles that takes zero point energy potential to generate the gravitational effects cosmologists are observing. But this basically boils down to that it could be possible to create virtual matter with energy and for the Gigantic to apply it to its physical form.

Just to summarize, my theory is that the Gigantic augments its cellular structure with infused energy. This both explains the Gigantic's much higher power level and how the armor can be more durable with less density than the normal Guyver. This is hardly a new idea btw, just look at other fictional characters that enhance themselves with stored energy, like Superman, etc. The basic idea being the energy charge re-inforces the internal structure of the cells giving the same net effect as making them denser would cause but without the need for an actual increase in density. Much like hydrolics the stored energy prevents compression, which combined with the Guyver organism ability to Bio-Boost is what I think allows for the Exceed. Since such a system is not based on physical limits and thus is scalable to virtually any size and still work. Bypassing the normal limits that increased volume/mass would normally cause. So since the concentration of energy remains the same, the density of the Exceed remains about the same as the Gigantic but with all that energy it explains the proportional increase in power. So it is basically a combination of rapid cellular growth and cellular enlargement made possible by infused energy to fill them up. The rapid loss of energy thus explains why the Gigantic would collapse and auto deactivate if it uses up too much energy as much of that energy is needed to support its cellular structure. I like this theory because it doesn't require anything exotic and goes with a basic principle of the Guyver technology, such as the part in which the organism merges with the muscle and bones to let them be infused with energy to make them stronger as well as increase cellular growth. The Gigantic just takes it a step further and the Exceed shows its ultimate potential.

Hmm, only if he had as much control over magnetic fields as say X-Men's Magneto. It's one of the reasons scientists have such problem developing nano-technology as they have to learn to control such forces. . . But that doesn't rule it out. It just require an insane level of control and the CM could solve that... I disagree, the biological restraints of the Guyver may be different but we are already taking that into account. What is key in my opinion is how those changes can be applied to the whole to make the Exceed possible.The difference in our view point is simply that I believe the difference is something that has to be there from the start and you think it is something that is being introduced. But the description of the Exceed is not as something different but of the power of the Gigantic unleashed. So I don't think a mutation exactly fits. Also the difference starts with the Gigantic, as pointed out it already is less dense than the regular Guyver. Which suggests to me that the change starts there and the Exceed is just the end result of that change. Additionally, I see no comparison to the Dragonlord. He wasn't even really a single biological being, since his body was composed of hundreds of thousand of zoanoids. So is based on a completely different system than the Gigantic, who just grew to Exceed size. Not to mention Dragonlord had more mass, so isn't as hard to explain as the Gigantic transforming into Exceed. I'd like to make it clear though that this doesn't dismiss your theory that the Exceed is different but your theory doesn't seem to me to take into account that the Gigantic is different to start with. So that difference is either part of what makes the Gigantic capable of going Exceed or as you suggest something new was being introduced. But I don't believe something new was being introduced, just an ability being revealed. The Gigantic has been suggested to be basically, and I'm simplifying the description, part energy construct and this is why it collapses when it uses up too much energy. The same system could easily account for the Exceed and cause the same changes you are describing but is based on something already observed with the Gigantic, just taken to the next step. The thing with physical proportions is that physics of proportions are pretty much straight forward regardless of internal structure. You can add redundancy and extra load strain support but only so much would fit inside a body before it quickly gets to the point a radical redesign would be required to support the increased strain. This is of course eliminating changes in density that stronger materials would account for to make larger structures possible. For example you can never make a structure stronger than if you made it all one solid piece of the densest material you can think of. So whatever the internal design, if the strain exceeds even the maximum potential of any said material then another explanation has to be presented to account for the discrepency. So since we have a density anomaly, which is basically the lack of an increase in density and only an increase in mass (eliminating the possibilty of stronger material by density increase), it then comes to the physical capacity of what the Gigantic is made up of but also has to explain how such a design could both support the vastly increased strain of that size but also allow a proportional increase in power to boot. The combination of both is what makes the possible solution such a conundrum and I think more important to understanding what makes the Gigantic different from the normal Guyver. The Gigantic Data File for example states that the armor is stronger than the regular Guyver's but the height to mass ratio indicates it is less dense than the normal Guyver, which is the point I'm emphasizing. Since this change seems to start with the Gigantic and not just the Exceed that I believe it starts there, supported by other factors like how the Gigantic makes itself more powerful than the Guyver and why it collapses when too much energy is used up. But for a proportional increase in abilities the body has to stay pretty much the same to have the same range of motion, etc. You can't for example make the bones thicker without altering how the limbs move and if you look at the exoskeleton of insects the Gigantic doesn't really follow the design of an exoskeleton. This is the same reason we have increasing problems making taller and taller buildings. You can only scale something so much and improve upon design so much before the strain counters all possible solutions and we are left with something that should not be able to stand, let alone move with proportional increase in power. Large statues like the Statue of Liberty are hollow exactly to keep the volume mass from overcoming the surface area of support. I know you have evolved an intricate way that you think this could be pulled off but ... Gaps really aren't allowed, kinda defeats the purpose of it serving as a skeleton or even complete armor as gaps allow strain to be focused at those points and thus makes them weak spots... and your original argument was for the external armor to act like a skeleton to explain the extra load bearing capacity of the Exceed to say it was more than just armor. Though it seems you are changing it now to indicate the armor is helping just to hold things together but that still leaves an enormous strain for the endoskeleton to withstand and doesn't completely support the containment either with the gaps. This too doesn't automatically dismiss your theory though, a radical mutation could still explain everything even if the process you descibe doesn't work another could fit based on the same premise. However, I think combined with the other observations that it is perhaps more likely that we are seeing a potential being unleashed rather than a mutation. Perhaps I just know too much about biology, cause I know anything with both an internal and external skeleton would need them to work together in more ways than you are suggesting, especially if they are sharing load bearing, but then again as you said this isn't a real thing we are discussing and as I suggested other methods based on your same base premise could still make it work. . . I emphasis that you are free to disagree with me, I'm just honestly pointing out what I think is revelant and why I don't think your theory works but as I said I could be wrong.

@Eether, I think your math is off, Exceed's 2690 tons is a lot more than 7.3 times the mass of the Gigantic (393kg = ~867 pounds). @Enzyme-eternal, Okay... Let's test your theory... Does your theory really explain how the Gigantic could possibly get around the physical problem of increasing size to the point that his body would be under ~6144 times the strain of his normal Gigantic body? Does it account for the fact that the Gigantic is already less dense than the normal Guyver so whatever changes your theory entales is probably already there to begin with and thus wouldn't explain the proportional power increase? Since the same factors would already apply to the Gigantic, as you already partly pointed out with the Gigantic being nearly 10 feet tall. Does everything from that article not apply? Like the article points out most life is only designed to have a redundancy capacity of only 2-3 times. Despite the changes the Gigantic may make, it still follows a humanoid design and thus a humanoid weight distribution. So the problem with the Exceed is pretty much no matter what it does without a fundamental change in its makeup that there is no way it can withstand about ~6,144 times the normal strain and still have proportional increase in power as its Data File states. Otherwise the normal Gigantic would be virtually indestructable and we've seen it damaged so we know that's not true. Does your theory account for this? What are the benefits of an external skeleton, does it double the weight capaciy and is it more for armor or a skeleton? Can the Guyver's armor truly be considered a skeleton when it doesn't even have joints, as you pointed out skeletons have at least joints but the Guyver doesn't have joints so each armor segment is on its own? Can it even functions as a skeleton without directly linking with the internal skeleton to combine weigh tolerance load? Otherwise the loads would totally different and create extra shearing force every time it moved. We know the normal Gigantic is already less dense than the normal Guyver for example, so whatever changes are apparently an integral part of the Gigantic from the start. So a solution has to be considered for how it maintains this all the way through Exceed size. This is fundamental to our understanding of how the Gigantic works. So does your theory really fill all this?

Uh, this basically breaks down to you solve one problem by introducing new ones... Like guess what happens when you increase the other atomic forces? Even if you somehow ignore gravity, despite the fact it too is intrigal part of the makeup of matter and energy. We after all do have a mass increase for the Exceed, it just isn't greater than a straight increase would induce. The force that keeps everything together for example, just to keep those larger molecules together would result in a substantial increase to things like electro-static (doesn't need a chemical reaction) force and would have resulted, for example, in Aptom being stuck to Exceed like a fly on flypaper. Among other problems I can think of showing up... But I could be wrong, for all I know Takaya just did a direct scale up without any concern to the consequences.

You shouldn't dismiss an article by a university professor so quickly, she may not be a hard core scientist but she does know her basics better than most people. For example unless an animal is composed of material different from other animals then the density remains the same. The point of the article was to show the limits of said materials! And why you can't just willy nilly change size without some sort of consequence. Remember most life is made up of mostly water, and water can't be compressed (so density remains constant), and she did point out things like bone density remains the same when you take a cross sample over different size animals, instead altering the design and position of the bones to compensate. Like insects have their legs mostly on their sides while larger animals have them directly underneath to directly support their weight and spread the strain along the length of the bones, as well as making them thicker. But the Exceed retains the exact same proportions as the Gigantic, so it's a straight up increase in strain. And the dual skeleton of the Guyver/Gigantic do not solve the problem. For one thing the outer armor doesn't really form a skeleton, it does for example have gaps and nothing shows it connected to the inner skeleton so the weight would still effect all the organic material inside. You know things like getting concussions, blood vessel popping, etc that the skeleton can't protect against. Even the skeleton itself since like the ant example in the article, just to make the Ant as big as shown in the movie "Them" the ant's joints would have to be as tough as diamonds to support the increased strain but they aren't anywhere near as heavy or as big as the Exceed, which would have to withstand far greater strains and still be able to block a Purgatorium with just an open palm. The Gigantic would have to be near indestructable at normal size to be able to take the strain at Exceed size without a density increase. Going by simple physics of surface area versus volume. On the surface this means the dimensional shift is a far greater possibility as it avoids most the issues of changing the size of something. I just don't think it is what is happening because a dimensional shift would effectively make the Exceed the same weight as the Gigantic, but an increase in mass is present. There just isn't an increase in density to compensate the increased strain such an increase in size would induce. Also a dimensional shift in my mind would put most of the energy into the dimensional shift instead of being stored within the body. The biggest problem though is a matter of interpretation... To achieve the Exceed form the Gigantic did have to go full out and siphon energy continuously but once it reached full size the amps returned to normal size, this to me indicates it no longer needed to go full out to maintain that form. Second the amps again ballooned when the mini-black hole was being formed, indicating to me that the Exceed was still able to go full out and supports the previous indication that it didn't need to continuously do so to maintain its form. So to me this means the energy is being used for the size increase but not via an energy draining dimensional shift but through a physical enlargement that uses the stored energy to make up its structure. Like a crystal version of a balloon, for an overly simplified comparison of what I'm describing. The energy supports the structure and like hydrolics it supports the structure but unlike hydrolics energy would have no upper limit and thus the Exceed can move as it normally does and would explain how it can suddenly stop a purgatorium with just its open palm as the energy would have to be greater than the energy within its body before it took damage. The use of the same energy siphon to power the mini-black hole also indicates to me that the siphon is great enough to provide the mass needed to create a black hole, further reducing the possibility that it is a dimensional shift. And a dimensional shift should basically only effect the Gigantic, anything fired should return to normal size, like the head beam, etc as then they would be leaving the dimensional shift and returning to normal dimensions of the rest of the universe. While most of everything the Exceed did seem to indicate a direct use of proportional power and that to me indicates a straight up proportional increase in power that would not necessarily happen with a dimensional shift. @YoungGuyver, as for the Pressure Cannon, the Exceed did not use it. The mini-black hole was a different attack that the Exceed was using to counter a Giga Smasher level Purgatorium from Dragonlord Khan. And as pointed out the Amps all ballooned exactly like they did when the Gigantic started to grow into the Exceed form. It is also possible the 52 meters is the limit for the Exceed since Dragonlord did grow when he took on his second winged form but Exceed stayed at the same size. If it was a dimensional shift then there shouldn't be a limit. Though this may play into what Ryuki has been pointing out with the size being about the same as the Relic's. Suggesting perhaps the cells of the Gigantic retain the capacity to grow to Relic size and just need the energy to do so, which kinda makes sense since a space ship should be relatively light for better thrust to mass ratio, as well as a conveinant method of storing energy for fuel. So may be a feature we just never considered before. Course I could be wrong, even Anime physics is a remote possibility but Takaya has kept most things surprising close to what could be theoretically possible. So this is what I think makes sense for now.

Ryuki already did most of the math and we are already aware that volume is the key, which is the problem since volume increases 8 times faster than surface area for every doubling of height at the same proportions. Like if the basketball player Shaq was doubled in height and kept the same proportions his volume will increase 8 times. So since he is 7' and 300 pounds, doubling his size will make him 14' tall and weigh 2,400 pounds. This means as you scale things up the strain on any given structure dramatically increases, so without a corresponding increase in density then the structure will have to support many times the strain it was originally designed to do so. Really, check out this article... http://fathom.lib.uchicago.edu/2/21701757/ It'll clear up all the misconceptions you may have about what happens when you change scale!!!

@YoungGuyver - Yes, you really do need to see it ... Well the point of the back thrusters are that they are normally used for rapid booster rocket like acceleration, not rocket ship like take offs where they are the main means of propulsion... Exceed was going straight up in a standing position, just leaning back a bit, with the thrusters pointed downward. As I see it, if his size was a dimensional shift then he A) wouldn't have needed that much thrust just to chase after Dragonlord Khan and B) would have been proportionally faster if that was the case and broken the sound barrier as he accelerated upward since the effort for moving would be the same as before with a dimensional shift and speed would thus also get scaled up but that didn't happen either. A dimensional shift could even make moving easier as it effectively makes gravity less for a given size. Besides, as Ryuki clarified the Exceed mass did increase, it just didn't increase in density as something that size would normally have to be in order to withstand the increased strain of supporting such a massive body. Since volume increases 8 times for every doubling of height. The article I linked before hi-lites the problems with just increasing size without also increasing density when keeping the exact same proportions. Examples like... So there is an issue with the scale and physics involved. Your dimensional shift idea is a possible solution but I don't think it fits perfectly with everything we are shown, IMO anyway. As for the Mini-Black hole (not a pressure cannon), it's a real mini-black hole and not the virtual black hole like we've seen before. So conservation of energy is an issue as real black holes follow conservation of energy for their sizes... The moment it would leave the area of the dimensional shift it would have returned to normal dimensions if a dimensional shift was involved. Unlike a pressure cannon it didn't dissipate on impact and continued on into space before finally evaporating, nor did it create a shock wave as everything in its path simply got slurped up. . . So it wasn't just a dimensional augmented gravity field in my opinion. The Exceed Amps were indeed glowing but weren't bulging as they were when the Gigantic started to grow. This is the cover after I removed the text so you can see it more clearly... But when the Exceed was preparing the mini-black hole the amps again bulged and the shoulder pod rods and the chest spike extended and according to the DF they were used to fire it off. So an enormous amount of energy was being channeled into that attack. Here's a pic I colorized... And the Data File I also colorized... Exceed Data File So the only problem we're really having with the size is the lack of density you would normally get when scaling things up, but if the increase mass is mostly contained energy then it wouldn't necessarily need to be denser and didn't the VDF describe somewhere that the Gigantic as basically being part energy construct and that is why it collapses when it uses up too much energy?

Yoshiki Takaya created the Exceed, I don't think he would really disapprove with how we have treated the characters and their abilities. But consistency, accuracy, realism, and better following of the original is the reasons involved with the Chronicles re-write.

Here's a good layman paper written on the understanding of making things bigger and smaller, http://fathom.lib.uchicago.edu/2/21701757/ As for dimensional shift, what could work in my opinion would be to envelope the Gigantic in a multi-dimensional field. Scaling then becomes easy but the problem I see with the idea is that it would alter physical constants in order to accomplish this and this would have noticeable side effects. The least of which would be a color shift. But the scene in which the Exceed used its back thrusters seem to indicate that it is still following normal physics and needed extra thrust in order to fly up. The mini-black hole also seems to indicate this as otherwise it should have returned to a smaller normal size once fired, if it was being artificially enlarged dimensionally. Other methods, like manipulating empty space (method used in "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" and "Honey, I Blew up the Kid") would have the problem of maintaining the original mass regardless of size. So Exceed would be light like a balloon with that method. So I don't think it was dimensional...

Smaller means you need better containment of the plasma, as there would be less room for error, but if you can manage that then it could be possible. It's just gets really hard to control the plasma precisely as you get smaller, which was probably one of the reasons only Tony was able to miniaturize the Arc Reactor in the movie and why the bad guy had to steal one from him. Frankly Tony is going to have to do some miniaturization for the second movie anyway since his buddy has to become War Machine and I don't think he's going to stand still and let Tony put a hole in his chest to make room Though War Machine is a bulkier armor, but then again Tony's Reactor had to double as a magnet to keep those shrapnel shards from reaching his heart. So removing that feature could shrink the thickness a bit. Traditionally IronMan has power cells located throughout the armor, especially on the hips where many versions of the Armor had these Pod/discs power cells that he could also use as a bomb by overloading them and tossing them like grenades. It would be interesting if he does put multiple Arc Reactors in the Armor, at the very least it would allow the armor to be used by someone else. Also it could serve as backup in case his primary fails. Though having multiple fusion reactors does pose its dangers too, like T3 showed when certain fusion power cells were shown overloading and exploding But on the other hand the extra energy could be applied to plasma shields and made IronMan space travel worthy.

Basically put WG in the same class as a Zoalord with HSL for Chronicles. The Gigantic will be a bit more powerful, just with less stamina, and the Giga Smashers can actually destroy a WG now. But the Zoanoids will remain the same, with some a bit less powerful. So yes, Hyper Zoanoid Team 5 would be slaughtered. However, Chronos would probably have escalated their hyper zoanoid development in response to the greater Guyver threat. So it could have been Hyper Zoanoid Team Platoon!

How about a new scenario... As you know the updated information from the Manga has shown us that the Gigantic is more powerful than originally thought, the consequence of this is also that the Zoalords are also more powerful than originally thought. So if we consider the Gigantic a 5x character with 20x power attacks, then the Zoalords are 3-4x and also capable of extremely powerful power attacks...

My point of view is the mechanics and absolutes of what emotions are. . . emotions are at their core a response to either stimuli and/or memory. If you had no memory or anything stimulating your brain then you could not have emotions or even know what emotions are... Happiness is thus something that has to be both experienced and desired before you can choose to be happy and invariably you usually have to do something to invoke that emotion. Whether that something is meditation, remembering something that made you happy, or doing something you enjoy it all requires you to do something to invoke the emotion. And thus like many things in life it has to be earned in some way. Like say doing art makes you happy, then you do art to make yourself happy. Quintensentially we aren't born happy or sad, we learn these emotions and only then can we choose between them... That's my point of view anyway. I have to disagree... In part because the exact opposite can also be true of pride, like pride in family will make you talk to your brother even if you had a falling out with him. Pride isn't a simple emotion and Emotions are part of our pride/ego, because in order to be happy you have to indulge (oneself) in a feeling of pleasure or satisfaction and that is part of the function of pride/ego. Unlike the 6 core emotions, which happiness is one, Pride is one of the more complex emotions that encorporate many of the other emotions. Happiness especially is linked to pride, like pride in one's accomplishments is a pleasurable emotion associated with happiness and positively can induce you to make more accomplishments. While each of the 6 core emotions are basically ways we react to stimuli, to choose to be in any one of those states involves complex associations to which pride/ego encompasses. So by choosing to be happy, you are indulging yourself and thus acting upon your pride/ego. And pride/ego only inhibit happiness in complex situations where one source of happiness interferes with another source. Like pride in one's infallability would get in the way of the happiness of knowing the truth when it becomes apparent that the truth means you made a mistake. But for simplier emotional states such conflict doesn't come up. Really Pride is a quality that has the potential to be both good and bad, just like any emotion it can result in both good and bad behavior. The reason it is often considered a sin is because many people go too far with pride. Like placing the imporance of any one person above another can only invariably lead to trouble. But it is so much a part of our makeup that people often never realize when they over indulge their pride. See where I'm coming from?

An interesting theory on scaling and how it applies to life... http://hep.ucsb.edu/courses/ph6b_99/0111299sci-scaling.html Anyway, yes, Gravity becomes more of a factor as you scale things up because things like surface area ratio versus volume become so different as you scale things. The increase in strain can be considered by just how much the mass increased versuse how much the density increases. If the density remains the same then the mass increase is an increase in strain and the Exceed would thus be under about ~6,144 times the strain as the normal Gigantic would be from gravity alone. This is because surface area increases in 2 dimensions but volume increases in 3, so for every doubling of height results in 8x the weight. As to how the Exceed could be possible despite its counter intuitive density to mass ratio for its size... Ever watched the movie "The Core"? The made up metal they invented to make travel to the center of the Earth possible is one possible method. Using the pressure of the stored energy to increase the strength of the Bio-Material. In real life similar reactions are being used to create fibers that expand and bunch up to absorb explosive force, etc. So it's technically possible even though the idea basically breaks down to creating the durability of a diamond from the physics of a balloon.

The prevailing theory to explain intelligence is the Encephalization Quotient or EQ. which basically compares brain to body mass ratio with the underlining idea being you need a certain amount of brain power to run a certain sized body. So gauging the ratio gives you some idea whether there is enough brain power to both run the body and to be used for what we call intelligence. Of course there are other factors but you can basically start from there and then consider the other factors to see how brain power is used by various species. Like what ratio are the sizes of the different parts of the brain, humans having developed a larger forebrain for example. While other species like say an Eagle has Eyes about as large as ours (just with 5 times the number of cones and a 3x zoomable lens) but they take up a far larger ratio of their smaller skulls, similarly the optical processing part of their brain is larger in ratio than other similar size animals. So eagles have incredible vision compared to us as a example of how specialization can produce abilities greater than other species for a specific trait. Many species also have the ability to increase or decrease their brain size as needed, http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/triumphoflife/episode5.html Like some migrating birds can grow larger brains for when they need to migrate and then shrink back to normal once the migration is over. This ability to increase brain power for a specific need also exist within us to an extent, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/677048.stm Mental excersize is also believed to be necessary to keep healthy minds into old age. So you can view our brains a bit like a muscle, use it or lose it! Overall though it's good to consider that the law of conservation of energy applies to just about everything in nature, including brain power. So we can deduce the reason why chimps have better pattern memorization skills than humans is because unlike us they need that skill to survive. After all they can't yell specific warnings to each other like we can. Like "Hey, look out behind you," is simply beyond their very limited vocabulary. So they have to be more aware of what is going around them and keep track of where everything is cause they got no one but themselves to depend on. The most another chimp can do for them is scream bloody murder to sound the basic alert but it's up to each to figure out where that threat is coming from. We on the other hand developed other skills for survival so our pattern memorization skill is basically less prioritized for us. We can still memorize patterns, it just takes us a bit longer but of course there is so many other things we can do that a chimp can't. If our brains were prioritized differently then we would probably trounce the chimps, like certain forms of autism grants similar mental abilities for example. So it's not just how much brain power you have but how it is used.

You watch, you try it yourself, and learn to do it. . . There are more than one way to pass on knowledge besides direct teaching. Humans just perfected the process to the point we do it consistently and on purpose. While the chimps are more by chance, like learning to use a stick to fish for termites by watching another more experienced chimp do it first. Washoe, the first chimp to learn sign language even apparently passed it on to three other younger chimps before dying. . . Regardless, the point is they have the capacity, it doesn't really matter if it isn't anywhere near as developed as ours since they are clearly not as evolved as we are. It just shows there are some basic similarities between us, but like I said I disagreed with the idea of putting them under the same genus as us as the similarities aren't close enough to warrant that in my opinion. A rhesus monkey for example is capable of abstract thought, like shown when one learned to control a robot arm that was wired to its brain. It quickly realized the robot arm was working like its own and started using it. They tied its own arms so the rhesus monkey used the robot arm to feed itself. But despite that capacity they are still a long way from being us and despite the similarities we share with chimps they aren't different enough from all the other primates to put them closer to us versus any of the others.