I have always been interested in the human brain. The human brain is known to be more complex than any other system like it. The human being is the only creature that has "teenagers". No other animal has a teenage stage because other species brains skip straight from young, to adult. The human brain is capable of decoding messages, figuring out complex patterns and sequences and creates the traits of a teenager. Nothing in the world can quite reach the level of complexity that the human brain can, at least not in my opinion, so that's why it fascinates me.
What I want to know is how it can do all of this. What is the difference between our brains and the brain of an ape. We are known to be closely related to apes, yet not even they posses the same amount of brain power that we do.
This in no way means that we are the smartest creatures on earth of course, I'm sure other species come close, if not exceed our level of intelligence, but there are still things that our brains are capable of that not even super computers can do. So what is it that we posses that nothing else does? Is it the size of our brains? Are there extra stimuli or cells that other animals don't have? Or is it just that we are more evolved than other creatures? I'm not sure why we were gifted were given such a gift or how it even works to be honest, but I want to find out as much about the three pound miracle we call a brain as possible.
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