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"I weigh about three pounds yet I contain your entire universe. I can imagine things that do not exist. I am the only organ that named itself. What am I?"
Answer
The Brain
Explanation
The human brain weighs about 1.4kg (3 pounds). It creates the subjective experience of reality — everything you have ever seen, felt, or thought. Philosophers have pointed out that the brain is the only organ that named itself.
This is an easy riddle in the Science category — Riddles about physics, space, biology and the laws of the universe.
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