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A synapse. I find beautiful and elegant its shape, its symmetry, the way that neurons have to connect one to another. I don’t feel only an aesthetic pleasure: the thing that really fascinates me is that the informations that our nervous system elaborates, pass through that connections. The nervous system, that is composed by over one hundred billions of neurons, elaborates perceptions, thoughts, emotions, commands, movements, intuitions, tensions, answers, the management of our body operation, etc. All we are is there, as a synecdoche: in neural connections. In the complex system that is nervous system. In the relationship between this enormous quantity of neurons and the rest of the body. Having an immanent vision of reality, the mystery of all of this fascinates me so much. And non only me, obviously: historically and now in the more advanced researches of neuroscience, one of the questions that humanity has always asked itself is: what is awareness?