Billions of brain cells are not done forging links with billions of other brain cells.

Eventually there will be trillions and trillions of connections between cells.

Charged with electrical pulses rippling like lightning storms across the hills and valleys of the brain's deeply furrowed tissue.

Every cell in its place, every link between cells carefully organized, nothing random, nothing arbitrary.

What we would really love to understand is how the brain during development

generates millions and millions of neurons, sends them to the right position in the brain and then somehow instructs each of those

individual nerve cells to form very very specific connections with one another.

You can think about very specific connections with one another.

You can think about development like a play, a play that follows a script that is written

down by the genetic code, but it has no director it has no producer and it has a bunch of

actors that have never spoken their lines before despite all this you pull the

play off to me that's a miracle. Why America.

Thinking about Maslow's hierarchy and also integrating something called Vedic philosophy that looks at higher stages of development,

spiritual stages if you like.

Okay guys, welcome back to the Grimerica show.

We're going to be chatting with Dr. Richard Barrett a little bit later.

But first, Galactophagus gram, how's it going buddy?

Pretty good. I hope he didn't make that up right now.

I didn't.

I hope, actually I hope you did. I hope it didn't come from a listener.

No? No?

No. From your daughter? From your two-year-old daughter. No.

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