Habits & Distractions: Why Our Brain Tricks Us to Avoid Discomfort
Is everything we do in pursuit of pleasure and avoidance of pain?
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Brain vs Mind
The brain weighs only about 3 pounds, yet it contains about 12 billion cells, each of which is connected to 10,000 other cells, making 120 trillion connections called neural pathways. It generates more electrical impulses in a single day than all of the world’s telephones put together. Yet it uses less energy than a refrigerator …