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…cause it sure looks like a dandelion to me. It was the cover of Nature Reviews Neuroscience in October 2002. Why? Because they think that pretty weed looks like a brain.
Ummm, sure. I’ll go with Jessica on this one:
…if you know what features to look for, a surprising number of things resemble brains. We are a species that sees faces on the Martian surface and the Moon; we’re very good at pattern recognition, and it’s probably evolutionarily better for our brains to err on the side of “recognizing” something that isn’t there, than vice versa.
