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the wrinkled penthouse where you became you, folded to fit a skull.

means The largest part of the brain, made of two hemispheres, responsible for thought, memory, voluntary movement, and the senses.

from Straight from Latin cerebrum, "brain," which scholars trace back to a Proto-Indo-European root *ker- meaning "horn" or "head" — the same family that gives us "horn," "cranium," and Greek kara, "head." So the deepest sense is simply "the thing inside the head."

surface trick
Wrinkles triple its area to fit inside the skull.
split brain
Two hemispheres cross-wired to run opposite body sides.
thin genius
Thinking happens in a cortex millimeters thick.
left or right
Most language lives in the left hemisphere.
power hog
Burns roughly 20 percent of your energy at rest.
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