Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor
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They're social.
A single cell can have 10,000 to 15,000 connections in a network with other neurons.
10,000 to 15,000.
That is a social network.
Talk about influencers, boy, it's those brain cells.
So they're busy in there.
And it's same for humans.
We are social creatures.
And what happens to us if we don't socialize?
Well, we become more rigid.
We become more firm in our right, wrong, good, bad.
And we kind of curl up in little fetal balls and we die.
And the same is true for neurons.
So number one, if it's alive and it's in your head, you're using it.
The other biggest one is right hemisphere is emotional.
Left hemisphere is thinking.
And it's like, well, it is true that the left thinking is the rational, organized, analyzed, linear thinking, methodical.
That is true.
But we do have emotion in both hemispheres.
So as far as the medical, traditional medical world is concerned, only one quarter of our brain is conscious.