No tangles! The human brain's connections turn out to be a an orderly 3D grid structure with no diagonals. 2D sheets of parallel fibers cross at right angles -- " like the warp and weft of a fabric." The first pictures from the most powerful brain scanner of its kind reveal an "astonishingly simple architecture." This diffusion spectrum image of a whole human brain came from the new Connectom scanner, part of the NIH's Human Connectome Project. See full story at http://www.nimh.nih.gov/science-news/2012/brain-wiring-a-no-brainer.shtml *This video has NO audio.*
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We did not randomly feel the world, but that our brain created a special map that represented our skin surface. This map of the skin surface is in the same place in everyone’s brain, and is called the primary sensory cortex (or somatosensory cortex, see below). Articles about NEUROSCIENCE: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=neuroscience 
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