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Michael Woudenberg's avatar

Humans are weird.

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Andrew Smith's avatar

Apt comment!

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Daniel Nest's avatar

Poop and sperm in one article? Truly, you've outdone yourself this time! What can you even do in 2025 to top this?!

And honestly, if you really think about it, the idea of a tiny fully-formed human simply growing in size inside the mother isn't THAT much more outrageous than two separate humans' cells fusing and multiplying and then gradually building an entire baby from scratch. Both sound like voodoo miracles, and yet here we are.

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Andrew Smith's avatar

Truth is stranger than fiction, and reality is even more wild than we previously thought it was. I think that tends to be true in physics too!

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David Perlmutter's avatar

"a micro-sized version of you." E.G.: Mini-Me in the Austin Powers movies.

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Honeygloom's avatar

The mini map is pretty cool, i had no idea that’s how it worked. Do the territories change if you learn a new dance move or skill or something? Pretty interesting stuff!

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Andrew Smith's avatar

Great question. I think the TL;DR is that the locations don't change, but they can be repurposed to an amazing degree, EG with neuroplasticity. I love thinking about us rewiring our brains!

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Honeygloom's avatar

Brains are so wild, I love learning new things about them!

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Andrew Smith's avatar

Let's keep going down this rabbit hole. i just wrote about our own internal dialogues today! More weird brain stuff coming soon.

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Honeygloom's avatar

Yes! I just recently learned that some people don’t even have that internal voice. Excited to read this!

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Henny Hiemenz's avatar

🤯

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Ken Barber's avatar

"I think I will name him -- Mini Me." [putting pinkie to lips]

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Andrew Sniderman 🕷️'s avatar

Take my hand … https://youtu.be/pbj4Te_guxY

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Andrew Smith's avatar

Yes! Open your mind!!!!

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