Your Amazing Brain
The word “amazing” seems to be used pretty loosely these days to describe a lot of things, many of which often turn out to be disappointingly mediocre; but in the case of your brain there is no other word that comes close to describing it.
This pink coloured, wrinkled lump of pulsating wetware, with a texture not dissimilar to blancmange, is composed of around 85% fat and weighs in at around 1.5 kg. It contains a densely woven meshwork of 86 billion brain wires along with a further 86 billion support cells, all neatly packed away between your ears. It is truly amazing.
As the ultimate supercomputer, your brain is currently light years ahead of anything that man has so far managed to create. It works relentlessly, non-stop ...
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