A typical neuron makes about ten thousand connections to neighboring neurons. Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
“The dinosaur's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.”
“I think you can be cynical about religion on occasion, and certainly skeptical about the degree to which some people use religion to manipulate other people.”