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The Human Brain's Complexity Verges on The Brink of Chaos, Physicists Say


The human brain is said to be the most complex object in the known Universe.  Its 89 billion neurons each have around 7,000 connections on average, and the physical structure of all those entities may be balanced precariously on a knife's edge, according...

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