A Grand Old Place Within A Tiny Space (I.e., The Brain and Its Wondrous Capabilities)

One definition for "wondrous" is "Inspiring a feeling of wonder or delight; marvelous."

See https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/wondrous

The Greek tragedian Sophocles waxed eloquent about the wondrous nature of humanity in the tragic play, Antigone:

"And speech, and wind-swift thought, and all the moods that mould a state, hath he [i.e., man] taught himself; and how to flee the arrows of the frost, when 'tis hard lodging under the clear sky, and the arrows of the rushing rain; yea, he hath resource for all; without resource he meets nothing that must come: only against Death shall he call for aid in vain; but from baffling maladies he hath devised escapes" (lines 332-340).

King David likewise spoke of humanity's wondrous nature, but he lauded Jehovah God while articulating human wonder: "I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; that I know very well." (Psalm 139:14 NRSV).

Concerning the Hebrew terminology rendered "Wonderful" above, Gesenius has the following:

to be wonderful, Psalms 118:23, 139:14. Pl. f. as a substantive נִפְלָאוֹת things done wonderfully, miracles of God, both in creating and sustaining the world, Psalms 9:2, 26:7 40:6 and in affording aid to his people, Exodus 34:10; Joshua 3:5. It also takes adjectives, as, נִפְלָאוֹת גְּדוֹלוֹת Psalms 136:4. Adv. נִפְלָאוֹת wonderfully, Job 37:5. Daniel 8:24. (Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon)

Th. Booij offers these remarks on Psalm 139:14:

The participle niplaim ("wonderful") nicely links up with nipleti, being related to it formally and semantically. That YHWH's works are wonderful is demonstrated in the speaker himself. It is a notion that thoroughly pervades him: "my soul knows right well."

Out of all the things that make humanity "wondrous/wonderful," one thing is the human brain. From the activity of our dendrites and synapses to our capacity for language and memory, the brain is one reason that we can laud the work of God's creative hand: the brain has been compared to a universe within our heads. For example:

"The human brain boasts an estimated 100 billion nerve cells, or neurons, each of which may connect to up to 10,000 other neurons (although not all do). If you could count all those contacts, one per second, you'd need just over 31 trillion years to finish the job."

See https://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2018/12/12/computer-memory-a-scientific-team-builds-a-virtual-model-of-a-key-brain-region/

Another article states:

"Your brain has the capacity to retain 4.7 billion books, scientists have discovered, or ten times the number originally thought. On average, one synapse can hold roughly 4.7 bits of information, which means that the human brain can hold one petabyte (1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes)."

Hence, our brain is a grand old place located within a tiny space.

Sources for Further Reading:

Th. Booij, "Psalm CXXXIX: Text, Syntax, Meaning," Vetus Testamentum 55 (2005): 1-19.

Collins, C. John, "Psalm 139:14 - 'Fearfully and Wonderfully Made?' " Presbyterion, 1999.