Talking about Einstein in my last post got me thinking and I remembered an article I read once about a scientist who was fascinated with Einstein and always wondered what made him so smart. The article basically said that this guy was the person who performed the autopsy on Einstein and had kept and preserved his brain. He studied chunks of it trying to identify what made him so much smarter. What they eventually found was that he didn't have any more neurons (brain cells) than that average person and he didn't use any more of his brain than other people. What they found was that he had a much larger count of (i forget the name of it) links between the neurons than the average person. Many scientists have believed that these "links" were simply that. They were just links and didn't have any "processing power" in and of themselves. New research has found that they actually do have "processing power" so the links between the mini brains (neurons) are actually brains themselves. How cool is that!! Its amazing how much we miss because we don't read between the lines and don't ever challenge the status quo. I think that there is so much out there that we are just missing out on and I'm anxious to find out what it is. The more I learn, the more
I wonder...
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