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sungho_last Wednesday at 7:32 PM1 replyview on HN

What surprised me most was how large a single neuron is.


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jbotzlast Wednesday at 7:43 PM

In generalized, abstract sort of way it's probably accurate, but in reality most neurons don't look much like that and many have dendrites orders of magnitude longer than the one in that image. Stringing all your dendrites end-to-end they can probably easily go to the moon and back.