The Architecture of the Brain

The Cosmos appears to be enormous and without boundaries however you look at it!

 

Mountains do not appear to be particularly high when viewed from far above!

The Architect of the Universe 

The brain has a hundred billion neurons

Equal to the number of stars in the Milky Way

Each neuron has thousands of connections 

One hundred trillion links simultaneously at play

If we were to ride one neural electrical impulse

What patterns of thought might we witness or see

A childhood memory, an equation solved, a kiss.

What makes you you and what makes me me.

In slumber do neurons slow and cease to fire

Are the patterns of night thoughts truly our own

Is the architecture of ideas founded by demons?

Divided by two hemispheres and clasped by bone

There are many hills in the neural landscape

Many valleys and convolutions to increase capacity 

Equivalent to twenty million books in every head

Enabling civilization and sentient elasticity.

But where are morality and love located?

And why do some thoughts go to the dark side?

Is the human brain so quick to anger or otherwise?

Does a neuron address fear, severe links or hide?

What should be made of artificial intelligence?

A threat, an opportunity, a loss or a gain?

Will we  rue the day of the multidimensional tensor

Will we be washed away like tears in the rain?

 

Is the brain a unique gift from the Universe?

Selected by aeons of evolutionary force 

Have we finally reached a sentient golden age?

Or has humanity run its intellectual course?

More bleak doggerel by George Roberts September 2026