Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex!
Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.
Psalm 139:14 NLT
"The current New Scientist magazine is a special issue on the human brain, boldly pronouncing on the cover that the human brain is “the most complex object in the known universe.”
.... first is the fact that “it isn’t easy to explain what makes the human brain so special” compared to the brains of all other life-forms, but it clearly is very special.
No animal can compete with it.
One measurable factor that gives us superiority is cortical mass: human brains have more neurons in the cortex than any animal. It also takes longer for humans to reach maturity, indicating one reason our brains are more complex than any other mammal. Another factor is the 16 billion cortical neurons involved in our cognitive dominance.
What these “carefully orchestrated interactions” are, and how they are directed, is not known. It seems that the more that is learned about the brain, the more complex it gets.....the more we know, the more we realize what we don’t know. The Scientific American article ends by noting that there are hundreds of billions of stars in the Milky Way Galaxy, which is “just a fraction of the 100 trillion connections in our brain that enable us to sense, think, and act.”
CEH
Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.
Psalm 139:14 NLT
"The current New Scientist magazine is a special issue on the human brain, boldly pronouncing on the cover that the human brain is “the most complex object in the known universe.”
.... first is the fact that “it isn’t easy to explain what makes the human brain so special” compared to the brains of all other life-forms, but it clearly is very special.
No animal can compete with it.
One measurable factor that gives us superiority is cortical mass: human brains have more neurons in the cortex than any animal. It also takes longer for humans to reach maturity, indicating one reason our brains are more complex than any other mammal. Another factor is the 16 billion cortical neurons involved in our cognitive dominance.
What these “carefully orchestrated interactions” are, and how they are directed, is not known. It seems that the more that is learned about the brain, the more complex it gets.....the more we know, the more we realize what we don’t know. The Scientific American article ends by noting that there are hundreds of billions of stars in the Milky Way Galaxy, which is “just a fraction of the 100 trillion connections in our brain that enable us to sense, think, and act.”
CEH