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Here is this mass of jelly - three pound mass of jelly you can hold in the palm of your hand, and it can contemplate the vastness of interstellar space. It can contemplate the meaning of infinity and it can contemplate itself contemplating on the meaning of infinity. And this peculiar recursive quality that we call self-awareness, which I think is the Holy Grail of neuroscience, of neurology, and hopefully, someday, we’ll understand how that happens.
Vilayanur Ramachandran speaking on the brain. 
 
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    bahh this man is a role model!
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