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Fact check guess number 1: The human brain contains 250 billion neurons?

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86 billion neurons. 
Human Brain as a Scaled-Up Primate Brain
Remarkably, at an average of 86 billion neurons and 85 billion nonneuronal cells (25), the human brain has just as many neurons as would be expected of a generic primate brain of its size and the same overa

Posted - July 23, 2022
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  • 4625
    I guess what counts is not so much the number of neurons, but the number of dendrites connecting them.
      July 23, 2022 11:48 PM MDT
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  • 44282
    How one uses them is the most important factor.
      July 24, 2022 6:24 AM MDT
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  • 1878
    This is not a basis of quantum math mechanics proletariat!
      July 24, 2022 6:28 AM MDT
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  • 1878
    Since Inky ain't returning.
      May 1, 2024 12:15 PM MDT
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  • 44282
    She shows up periodically.
      May 1, 2024 4:37 PM MDT
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