The following is a conversation with Paola Aralada.

She is a professor of stem cell and regenerative biology at Harvard University and is interested

in understanding the molecular laws that govern the birth, differentiation, and assembly

of the human brain's cerebral cortex.

She explores the complexity of the brain by studying and engineering elements of how

the brain develops.

This was a fascinating conversation to me.

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And now here's my conversation with Paola Aralada.

You studied the development of the human brain for many years.

So let me ask you an out of the box question first.

How likely is it that there's intelligent life out there in the universe outside of

earth with something like the human brain?

So I can put it another way.

How unlikely is the human brain?

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