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Letter: Brain's complexity is a treasure of nature (2)

Published 20 March 2024

From Gavin Maclean, Gisborne, New Zealand

You ponder whether the human brain is the most complex object in the known universe. Without a brain there is no known universe, so the converse is more empirical: the universe is the most complex object in the human brain.

Issue no. 3483 published 23 March 2024

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