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Our brain weighs between 1.2 and 1.5 kilos, but elephant brains weigh between four and five kilos, and whale brains can weigh up to nine kilos, which is why scientists used to resort to saying that our brain must be special to explain our cognitive abilities.

Gorillas can be two to three times larger than we are, so their brains should also be larger than ours, but instead it's the other way around.

Maybe the problem was with the basic assumption that all brains are made in the same way.

Maybe two brains of a similar size can actually be made of very different numbers of neurons.

So we've used that method to count neurons in dozens of different species so far, and it turns out that all brains are not made the same way.

Take rodents and primates, for instance: In larger rodent brains, the average size of the neuron increases, so the brain inflates very rapidly and gains size much faster than it gains neurons.

But primate brains gain neurons without the average neuron becoming any larger, which is a very economical way to add neurons to your brain.

His brain, like ours, was made in the image of other primate brains.

And it turns out that both human and other brains cost about the same, an average of six calories per billion neurons per day.

We use our bodies to think; we don't just think with our brains and use our bodies to move, but our bodies feed back into our brain to generate the way that we behave.

So, I actually used two kinds of brains for the same robot.

The robot is the same lamp that you saw, and I put two brains in it.

From our brains to our hearts, our lungs, our joints.

Our investigators have found that there are differences in the brains of women and men in the areas that are connected with mood.

We knew that primates and elephants and dolphins could do that, but compared to bats, they have huge brains.

I think it's the loveliest thing that our brains have invented.

In this experiment, individuals were shown hundreds of hours of YouTube videos while scans were made of their brains to create a large library of their brain reacting to video sequences.

I'd like to talk today about how we can change our brains and our society.

And I was there to study their brains.

So we wanted to look closer at this to use MRI to image their brains.

Now I'm not suggesting we endow criminals with superpowers, but I am suggesting that we need to find ways to get Joe and people like him to change their brains and their behavior, for their benefit and for the benefit of the rest of us.

So can brains change?

However, our brains are also exquisitely sensitive to stress in our environment.

Because our brains are capable of change, we need to take responsibility for our actions, and they need to take responsibility for their rehabilitation.

The tapeworm hijacks their brains and their bodies, turning them into vehicles for getting itself into a flamingo.

We take drugs to shift the chemistries of our brains and to change our moods, and what are arguments or advertising or big ideas if not an attempt to influence someone else's mind?

We are more intelligent than a mere rat, to be sure, but our brains have the same basic structure, the same types of cells, the same chemicals running through them, and the same parasites.

Estimates vary a lot, but some figures suggest that one in three people around the world have Toxo in their brains.

I've recently realized that ants are using interactions differently in different environments, and that got me thinking that we could learn from this about other systems, like brains and data networks that we engineer, and even cancer.

And this raises an analogous question about brains.

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