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May 2 - May 12, 2020
science is the gradual process by which the cognitive parts of our brains discover the inaccuracies in our deeper, evolutionarily built-in models of the world.
Attention is a layered set of mechanisms—a data-handling method—whereas consciousness is an inner experience that we claim to have.
The human brain contains about 86 billion neurons.2 It may contain about 100 trillion synapses, possibly even 10 times as many.