Imagine you're the guy working the MRI machine when this pops out:
This is a guy with a job as a civil servant. He's got a family, wife, kids, the whole deal.
He's in there because he's having "mild weakness" in his left leg.
So they take a look inside his brains and find something you'd expect on an episode of The Simpsons.
The pictures on the left are of him, and for comparison, a normal person's brain on the right. See all that stuff in side? That's what makes us go. But the guy on the left has a giant pocket of cerebrospinal fluid (brain juice) and a thin layer of brains all around.
"Even more amazingly, the man's IQ score is 75, which according to the DSM-IV TR (the manual used by mental health clinicians to diagnose disorders) is on the high end of mild mental retardation."
For reference, Forrest Gump's character in the eponymous film was supposed to have about the same IQ.
Think about it - this guy has almost no brain. But like, apparently it's fine. Imagine if I cut out like 90% of your laptop. Would it even turn on? No. No it wouldn't. But somehow, life, even when given almost nothing, somehow manages to create thought and life and love. Out of like almost no brains.
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Oh oh oh, and what about the girl with the GPA of 94.7, all while running on half a brain!
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Somehow, neuroplasticity just doesn't do it justice.
Brain shapes life, life shapes brain, and round and round we go.
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