Brain: where complexity should meet effort.
Photo by MTAPhotos on TrendHype / CC BY The brain is indeed complex but believing that we will never ‘crack the code’ does little in advancing the collective effort that we have to engender to understand the different parts to make sense of the whole (Jasanoff, 2018). If there is something that can be understood, though, is that the biological and physically hierarchical structures of the human brain take time and order to develop (Dehaene-Lambertz & Spelke, 2015). Starting from inception, and going over our development in utero, we already know that there is a reason why our species take so long to prepare for birth and are born with a disproportionately large head. We have also come to realize how the programmed ‘travel’ that neurons take to go to their destined site is guided by an orchestrated chemical symphony. This process is largely conducted by glial cells which make neurons land where they are supposed to be by an almost total account. Still i