The Human Brain

[RandyWayne]

Very interesting story.

The human brain is truly awesome.

A typical, healthy one houses some 200 billion nerve cells, which are connected to one another via hundreds of trillions of synapses. Each synapse functions like a microprocessor, and tens of thousands of them can connect a single neuron to other nerve cells. In the cerebral cortex alone, there are roughly 125 trillion synapses, which is about how many stars fill 1,500 Milky Way galaxies.

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http://news.cnet.com/8301-27083_3-20...?tag=cnetRiver

[Timmy]

Originally Posted by RandyWayne

Very interesting story.

The human brain is truly awesome.

A typical, healthy one houses some 200 billion nerve cells, which are connected to one another via hundreds of trillions of synapses. Each synapse functions like a microprocessor, and tens of thousands of them can connect a single neuron to other nerve cells. In the cerebral cortex alone, there are roughly 125 trillion synapses, which is about how many stars fill 1,500 Milky Way galaxies.

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http://news.cnet.com/8301-27083_3-20...?tag=cnetRiver

No wonder it malfunctions so often!

[coadie]

Originally Posted by RandyWayne

Very interesting story.

The human brain is truly awesome.

A typical, healthy one houses some 200 billion nerve cells, which are connected to one another via hundreds of trillions of synapses. Each synapse functions like a microprocessor, and tens of thousands of them can connect a single neuron to other nerve cells. In the cerebral cortex alone, there are roughly 125 trillion synapses, which is about how many stars fill 1,500 Milky Way galaxies.

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http://news.cnet.com/8301-27083_3-20...?tag=cnetRiver

Before birth, the brain produces trillions more neurons and “synapses” (connections between the brain cells) than needed. These cells for the most part grew before birth.

Humans are not a product of random mutation and evolution.

[RandyWayne]

Originally Posted by Timmy

No wonder it malfunctions so often!

And yet I can't recite the alphabet backwards...... At least not at nearly the same speed that I can forward.

[coadie]

Originally Posted by RandyWayne

And yet I can't recite the alphabet backwards...... At least not at nearly the same speed that I can forward.

And the Jews read backwards from right to left.

[RandyWayne]

Originally Posted by coadie

And the Jews read backwards from right to left.

I could as well if I had memorized a-z as z-a instead. To this day when alphabetizing anything I do my version of Potsy Weber singing the heart song as I figure out which letter comes before which (mostly the middle ones).

[Aquila]

Originally Posted by RandyWayne

Very interesting story.

The human brain is truly awesome.

A typical, healthy one houses some 200 billion nerve cells, which are connected to one another via hundreds of trillions of synapses. Each synapse functions like a microprocessor, and tens of thousands of them can connect a single neuron to other nerve cells. In the cerebral cortex alone, there are roughly 125 trillion synapses, which is about how many stars fill 1,500 Milky Way galaxies.

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http://news.cnet.com/8301-27083_3-20...?tag=cnetRiver

I could wile away the hours
Conferrin' with the flowers
Consultin' with the rain
And my head I'd be scratchin'
While my thoughts were busy hatchin'
If I only had a brain

I'd unravel any riddle
For any individ'le
In trouble or in pain

Oh, I would tell you why
The ocean's near the shore
I could think of things I never thunk before
And then I'd sit and think some more

I would not be just a nuffin'
My head all full of stuffin'
My heart all full of pain
I would dance and be merry
Life would be a ding-a-derry
If I only had a brain

[CAD/JPY]

You all should read the book - "The Spiritual Brain" written by some neuroscientists out of Montreal. Excellent read.

[Sister Alvear]

fearfully and awesomely made...

[RandyWayne]

Originally Posted by Sister Alvear

fearfully and awesomely made...

From reading the short article I get the impression that complexity level of the brain is at least two, probably three, orders of magnitude greater than what was thought even a year ago.