THE ART AND SCIENCE OF LOOKING UP REPORT
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Overview<br />
YOUR BRAIN IS<br />
AMAZING. YOU HAVE<br />
A S<strong>UP</strong>ER POWER YOU<br />
MAY NOT BE<br />
FULLY AWARE <strong>OF</strong>.<br />
Our brains are remarkable organs, made up of around 100 billion neurons.<br />
To put that in perspective, an average household bucket can hold about<br />
a billion grains of sand, so if you piled up 100 buckets of sand, you’d be<br />
close to visualising the number of neurons in your brain.<br />
Now imagine that each of those grains of sand could form 10,000<br />
connections, and that these connections can shift and change over time.<br />
Our brains are a work in progress.<br />
When you work out the total number of possible parallel processes in<br />
your brain, you get a number with fifteen zeroes – that is 5 quadrillion.<br />
The level of complexity is staggering.<br />
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