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  • Frittiert@feddit.orgtoShowerthoughts@lemmy.worldXXX
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    18 days ago

    Maybe we are not done yet with understanding how our biological computer works.

    On topics like this, I like to think about bacteria:

    Before microscopes, it was unimagible to have little organisms on us and everywhere around us. People have been labelled crazy for believing that there is a whole small universe of organisms everywhere.

    Then came microscopes, and suddenly everyone could see it for themselves.

    What if we just don’t have the right tools to make our magic sauce, spirit, soul, whatever visible to us yet?




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    3 months ago

    Shit. So a quick search says a brain weighs 1.5kg and 0.5% is 7.5g. A credit card weighs about 5g. We have more plastic in our brains than there is in a card?

    The article mentions that the quantity in 2024 was 50% higher than in 2016 - which is a high increase for just 8 years. This development probably doesn’t slow down, it may even get faster. How much plastic will be in our brains in another 8 years?

    Shit.