a universe in the brain

200 billion neurons linked to one another via hundreds of trillions of synapses.

A single human brain has more switches than all the computers and routers and Internet connections on Earth,” he said.

“In a human, there are more than 125 trillion synapses just in the cerebral cortex alone,” said Smith.

That’s roughly equal to the number of stars in 1,500 Milky Way galaxies.