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Evolve Solutions; When You Find A Good One, Don't Stop.

This Is The Hallmark Of A Robust Biological System: Political Parties Can Perish In A Tragic Accident And The Society Will Still Run, Sometimes With Little More Than A Hiccup To The System. It May Be That For Every Strange Clinical Case In Which Brain Damage Leads To A Bizarre Change In Behavior Or Perception, There Are Hundreds Of Cases In Which Parts Of The Brain Are Damaged With No Detectable Clinical Sign.

There Is A Looming Chasm Between What Your Brain Knows And What Your Mind Is Capable Of Accessing.

Your Brain Is Built Of Cells Called Neurons And Glia - Hundreds Of Billions Of Them. Each One Of These Cells Is As Complicated As A City.

Reductionism Is Not The Right Viewpoint For Everything, And It Certainly Won't Explain The Relationship Between The Brain And The Mind. This Is Because Of A Feature Known As Emergence. When You Put Together Large Numbers Of Pieces And Parts, The Whole Can Become Something Greater Than The Sum.