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Ep14 "Why do we have so little access to what’s happening under the hood?"

Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman

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The Complexity of the Brain

The human brain is made up of 86 billion specialized cells called neurons and each neuron is as complicated as the city of New York. Every neuron contains the entire human genome and is trafficking millions of proteins around inside it. So in other words, it's not that you have a brain, it's that you are your brain. All your thoughts, your hopes, your fears, the agony and the ecstasy, it's all happening right inside here in your brain"

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