If this year's iPhone release taught us anything, it's that we're a society which craves new technology, jumping at the chance to replace last year's breakthrough advancement with one that's a millimeter thinner.
But what we often forget is that we already own the most dynamic, efficient machine ever created: the human brain.
The (roughly) three-pound supercomputer inside your skull simultaneously processes facts and faces, stores memories, sweeps out toxins, controls movement and speech and makes decisions. And over the last few years, thanks in part to advancements in neuroimaging techniques, scientists are discovering even more about how remarkable our brain really is.
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