Conclusion

"The Art is long, life is short, opportunity fleeting, experience delusive, judgment difficult." Hippocrates - The First Aphorism.

The nervous system remains shrouded in enigma; for every mechanism we decipher, a thousand new questions emerge.

How can a thought be developed, an idea forged, and a consciousness and profound sense of individuality constructed from an inert mass such as the brain? How do electrical circuits provide us with this massive subjective illusion of the self? How does this 1.3 kg mass manage to make us - humans - beings that are so exceptional and so powerful?

There is an enormous amount to say about the nervous system, and what has been discussed in this medium is certainly very little, if not nothing, compared to what is known today; in fact, the sum of human knowledge in this field today is likely only a tiny fraction of what remains to be discovered.

Understanding the functioning of the nervous system requires a multidisciplinary approach encompassing biology, psychology, neurology, philosophy, sociology, and history... and even computer science, as the operation of computer systems presents many similarities with the functioning of the nervous system.