Every country has names for people who may not be the smartest, or the brightest. Some of these are in jest – some are not. One such name is “pea brain” which is hopefully self-descriptive.
This article is somewhat related, but more intelligent. It’s about pea-sized brain organoids, and what they reveal about consciousness, the self and our future as a species.
“When I moved from Brazil to the United States to train as a neuroscientist, I was shocked to discover that most of our ‘knowledge’ about the human brain in fact came from another species: the mouse. This struck me as pretty strange. After all, it wasn’t the mouse brain that put us on the Moon or that decoded the human genome. It was the human brain in all its complexity that generated our understanding of life and of the laws that govern the Universe.”
Read more courtesy of Alysson Muotri and Aeon.co
