I really like the way British philosopher, Emerson M. Pugh put it, “If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn’t.” Brains must be complicated in order to what they do. They have been referred to as the most amazing piece of biological real estate in the known universe. According to Konrad Kording, the human brain produces in 30 seconds as much data as the Hubble Space Telescope has produced in its lifetime. It produces 50,000 thoughts a day. I like the way Joel Havemann put it: What seems astonishing is that a mere three-pound object, made of the same atoms that constitute everything else under the sun, is capable of directing virtually everything that humans have done: flying to the moon and hitting seventy home runs, writing Hamlet and building the Taj Mahal—even unlocking the secrets of the brain itself.
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