Wait What? The Universe Is Just the Human Brain Enlarged?

Are the similarities between the universe and the human brain deeper than we thought?

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00:00To anyone who has looked closely enough, the universe kind of looks like a brain.

00:06But now researchers from the University of Verona and the University of Bologna say,

00:10there may be more similarities in their structure than what meets the telescoped eye.

00:14The universe is thought to have at least 100 billion galaxies,

00:17made up of an intricate web that links them together.

00:20Similarly, the human brain has a network of neurons, about 70 billion of them,

00:24an equally complex web of data delivering tendrils.

00:27What's more, in both of the independent systems, the connecting filaments account for about 30% of its mass,

00:32while the passive areas, i.e. the brain's grey matter and the universe's dark matter, make up the other 70%,

00:38which the researchers say could mean extremely different physical processes may converge to incredibly similar,

00:43albeit complex, organized structures, adding that both systems' connection points were similar as well,

00:48with the researchers concluding that each part of both the brain's and the universe's structural parameters

00:53were more akin to one another's than to other parts of their own respective systems.

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