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Brains are Delicious

There is no way we can always be in control of our own brain, but even as we think about how we aren't in control of our own brain or start thinking of ways to avoid pitfalls by "trusting" our brain, we are using our brain and trusting it to make these arguments. Different parts of the brain, yes, but we haven't been referring to the brain in terms of its parts yet, so... yeah. I don't know why I fixate on being unable to get out of your brain, but I do.

A couple of brain links:

brainmuseum.org/Evolution/index.html

www.msu.edu/~brains/brains/brains.html

keck.ucsf.edu/

www.sciencemag.org/search

content.karger.com/ProdukteDB/produkte.asp

content.karger.com/ProdukteDB/produkte.asp

I know we always care about humans, but what about other brains? What in human brains makes them different from other animal brains, and what makes them similar? This kind of goes back to the issue of intelligence, at least since comparitive brain size and mapping is used as a means of determining intelligence.

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