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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="+1" color="#000000">The
distribution of matter in the universe looks a little like the
"connectome," the network of nerve connections in the human brain.
Neurons in the human brain, too, form clusters, and they connect by
axons, that are long nerve fibers which send electrical impulses from
one neuron to another.<br>
The resemblance between the human brain and the universe is not
entirely superficial; it has been rigorously analyzed in a 2020 study
by the Italian astrophysicist Franco Vazza and neuroscientist Alberto
Feletti. They calculated how many structures of different sizes are in
the human brain's connectome and in the cosmic web, and reported
"a remarkable similarity".<br>
Brain samples on scales below about 1 millimeter and the distribution
of matter in the universe up to about 300 million light years, they
found, are structurally similar. <br>
https://time.com/6208174/maybe-the-universe-thinks/</font></div>
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