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We discussed in class how the brain contains 10^12 neurons. This idea is absolutely fascinating to me because that seems like such a huge amount. B ut it also helps to make sense of some other things. If there wasn't such a huge amount of neurons in our brain, I don't know that we would be as complex as we are. It also allows for the fact that we can produce outputs without any inputs. I think that the most interesting thing is that we produce internal inputs that allow us to do certain things. For example we can imagine doing something, and then we can in fact do it. I think that this is the most amzing part of our brains. If we didn't have so many neurons, I don;t think that any of this would be possible. Instead we would just be reactors instead of actors, in my opinion.