“Contemplate the awesome reality of existence itself, and further that your mind evolved from inanimate matter as a result of a little less than 14 billion years of the natural history of the universe.” https://t.co/9czCSJV2Z7
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“Even if we assume one trillion galaxies, and that on average these galaxies have only one billion stars each, this leads to a low estimate of one billion trillion stars in the known universe.” https://t.co/9czCSJV2Z7
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“Our galaxy of approximately 100–400 billion stars is only one of what has been estimated to be two trillion galaxies in the universe.” https://t.co/9czCSJV2Z7
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The predator-prey dynamic provided the intense selective pressure for the evolution of neural networks that were optimized for effective escape and predatory behaviors, as well as for the mechanisms of synaptic plasticity that underlie learning and memory.