• Question: What do you find most interesting about the brain?

    Asked by Abigail Elcome to Robert on 9 Nov 2015.
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      Robert Lees answered on 9 Nov 2015:

      What a question! There are so many interesting things about the brain and a lot of mysteries.

      Where does one thought end and the other begin? How do different parts of the brain connect in the correct way? How is there any order in the mess of neurons in our brains?

      I think what I find most interesting is how a thought is just a chemical and electrical signal that is sent EXTREMELY quickly between a network of neurons. Somehow what looks like a huge connected mess (our brain) is linked perfectly to allow for us to make and recall thoughts again and again.

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