Unlike humans, it is believed that birds do not have a symbolic language system that can be reduced to words (Berwick et al. 2012). But they do have a nervous system that can generate sequences of movements to yield sounds much like that produced by humans. The question now is to determine how much information can be generated via bird vocalization as compared to that generated via human vocalization as supported by a genetically endowed grammar (Chomsky 1965). We have argued that what distinguishes animals in terms of their information transfer capacity is based on the number of neurons contained in their brains, with humans having a vastly larger number of neurons than most other species (Tehovnik and Chen 2015). If the design of the human nervous system is such that it was made to depart from that of other species, as suggested by Chomsky (2012), then one might expect that the information transfer capacity of human brains should not be constrained by the number of neurons thereby making humans a clear outlier, perhaps based on intelligent design properties at the neuro-synaptic level.
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