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The Moving Mind

Scientific American - Posted: February 14th, 2012, 10:30am EST

pIs there anything more everyday and familiar (given that we all possess one) and yet still so mysterious and puzzling as our own human brain? In about three pounds of tissue with the consistency of Jell-O, it packs 100 billion neurons, tens of trillions of neural connections and the low-watt processing power that has enabled our species to dominate this planet./p a href=http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-moving-mind[More]/a

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