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three pounds of fat that named itself, narrates your life, and feels no pain itself
means The organ inside your skull that controls thought, memory, emotion, and the rest of the body's workings.
from From Old English 'brægen,' the soft stuff in the head, with Germanic relatives like Dutch 'brein' and Low German 'bregen.' Its deeper roots are murky, though some link it tentatively to a Greek word 'bregma' for the front part of the skull — a cousin worth mentioning, but not a fact to lean on.
- power draw
- runs on 20 watts, less than a lightbulb
- no pain
- has zero pain receptors; surgery while awake works
- storage
- estimated capacity rivals the entire internet
- night shift
- more active asleep than awake during dreams
- self-cleaning
- flushes waste only while you sleep
for instance
human brain — weighs about 1.4 kg and contains roughly 86 billion neurons
blue whale brain — weighs 6.3 kg, the largest brain of any animal on earth
fruit fly brain — contains only 100,000 neurons but enables complex behavior like navigation