Approximately 500,000 neurons are generated every minute during gestation in the womb, and all those neurons must end up precisely in the right place in the brain with minute three-dimensional architectural accuracy—the complexity of this three-dimensional information could not be encoded in simple linear code and must be stored or coordinated by some overarching field.

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Iain McGilchrist

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it's something staggering like 500 000 neurons are generated every minute in in the business of gestation in the womb and all those neurons have to end up precisely in the right place in the brain and the brain has minute architectural where exactly is this information stored about the three-dimensional structure alone of the brain

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Iain McGilchrist, Rupert Sheldrake and Alex Gomez-Marin in conversationDr Iain McGilchrist
Created: 8/12/2026, 6:27:29 PM

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