The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) / quote 249 of 254

Brain connections make each of us unique

‘When you’re born, you’re born with pretty much all the brain cells you’ll ever have, but it’s the growth of the connections between those brain cells that accounts for the growth of the brain after birth. So, even if you’re a clone – that means an identical twin – you will have a unique configuration of brain-cell connections because they

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