Arturo Garcia Choice topic 1

Kurt Vonnegut’s Galapagos. This novel is about our big brains. On the second page, in the second chapter of the novel Vonnegut asks 2 questions: the first, “Can It be that three-kilogram brains were once nearly fatal defects in the evolution of the human race?”, the second question, “What source was there back then, save for our overelaborate nervous circuitry, for the evils that we were seeing or hearing about simply every-where?”. He also answered the question “there was no other source, this was an innocent planet except for those great big brains.” In  the novel Vonnegut was attempting to show how terrible our big brains can be, and he may be correct in this. Our brain can be terrible things that can cause us great pain. 100 billon neurons, 1000 to 10000 synapses per neuron, 10 to 23 watts of power, about 70000 thoughts a day, Don Quixote, Othello,  Penicillin, Beethoven’s ninth symphony, aqueducts, atom bombs, gladiator fights, public burnings, schizophrenia, delusions, all products of a very powerful computer locate in our skulls.