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Animal Minds

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Is It Possible for Us to See a Spindle Cell?

Spindle cells may be a key to how humans relate to one another, and whether or not other creatures can relate to us in the same way. They're long and skinny and purple. It's funny, because the normal brain cells, which you can also see in there, like dat, dot not. But these ones are like, i purple bananas, like a team of purple banana.

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