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An "enchanted loom" is how Charles Sherrington described the interconnected net of cells that makes up our three-pound control center. Indeed, there is something almost magical in the notion that all our mental processes, from perception to memory to consciousness itself, can be described entirely by cellular activity in the brain. read more
Best available estimate is about 170 billion cells. 86 billion neurons (plus or minus 8 billion), and 84 billion other cells (plus or minus 10 billion). read more