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You Write Using The Most Amazing Machine In The Universe
We all have one.
No. Not your laptop. Your human brain, the most amazing creative machine ever devised on our planet (and possibly in the universe until we discover otherwise) is not one created by humans but by nature.
There are no moving parts such as gears or drive chains; no mother-board, no central processing unit (CPU), no Random-access Memory (RAM), no hard disk drive or video card, just 100 billion neurons that gather and transmit signals not to mention millions of dendrites and axons, the neurons use to transmit those signals. The human brain is made up of around 75 percent water and is the fattiest organ in the body. It is made up of a minimum of 60 percent fat. It is the main organ of the human nervous system and is connected to the spinal cord. The two make up the central nervous system. The brain consists of the cerebrum, the brainstem, and the cerebellum. It controls most of the activities of the body; processing, integrating, and coordinating the information it receives from the sense organs; making decisions, and sending instructions to the rest of the body.
The modern human brain began its journey approximately 7 million years ago. Around that time, give or take a million years, a creature arose from the ape population that although displaying mainly ape-like habits…
