Yea I seriously cannot figure it out. I re-read the passage trying to figure out if he was talking about just one part of the brain or anything to explain the number, but couldn't figure it out. Even the citations were from Suzana Herculano-Houzel who counted and came up with the 86 billion number. Genuinely confused.
“humans have 13-16 billion neurons in the average brain”
That has to have been a mistake right?
It's 6-8 times lower than the conventional estimates I've seen. Lisa Feldman Barret cited ~108 billion IIRC in her latest book.
It seems unlikely that a new method of counting has come up with such a low number.
Yea I seriously cannot figure it out. I re-read the passage trying to figure out if he was talking about just one part of the brain or anything to explain the number, but couldn't figure it out. Even the citations were from Suzana Herculano-Houzel who counted and came up with the 86 billion number. Genuinely confused.