THE SYMPHONY OF THE BRAIN

Here you are the video we had pending from the prezi presentation about the brain.

I'd like you to learn the song, so I offer the transcription of the lyrics. enjoy it and learn more about the brain.

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[Robert Winston] It's amazing to consider that I'm holding in my hands

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The place where someone once felt, thought, and loved

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For centuries, scientists have been battling to understand

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What this unappealing object is all about

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[Vilayanur Ramachandran] Here is this mass of jelly you can hold in the palm of your hand

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And it can contemplate the vastness of interstellar space

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[Carl Sagan] The brain has evolved from the inside out

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Its structure reflects all the stages through which it has passed

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[Jill Bolte Taylor] Information in the form of energy streams in simultaneously

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Through all of our sensory systems

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And then it explodes into this enormous collage

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Of what this present moment looks like

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What it feels like, and what it sounds like

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It explodes into this enormous collage

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And in this moment we are perfect

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We are whole and we are beautiful

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[Robert Winston] It appears rather gruesome

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Wrinkled like a walnut, and with the consistency of mushroom

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[Carl Sagan] What we know is encoded in cells called neurons

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And there are something like a hundred trillion neural connections

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This intricate and marvelous network of neurons has been called

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An enchanted loom

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The neurons store sounds too, and snatches of music

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Whole orchestras play inside our heads

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20 million volumes worth of information

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Is inside the heads of every one of us

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The brain is a very big place in a very small space

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[Jill Bolte Taylor] Information in the form of energy streams in simultaneously

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Through all of our sensory systems

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And then it explodes into this enormous collage

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Of what this present moment looks like

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What it feels like, and what it sounds like

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[Carl Sagan] No longer at the mercy of the reptile brain, we can change ourselves

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Think of the possibilities

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[Bill Nye] Think of your brain as a newspaper

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Think of all the information it can store

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But it doesn't take up too much room because it's folded

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[Oliver Sacks] We see with the eyes, but we see with the brain as well

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And seeing with the brain is often called imagination

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[Jill Bolte Taylor] And then it explodes into this enormous collage

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And in this moment we are perfect

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We are whole and we are beautiful

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[Robert Winston] It is the most mysterious part of the human body

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And yet it dominates the way we live our adult lives

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It is the brain.