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He has settled with his creditors.

Another language of this group, Cantonese, probably ranks among the world's largest speech-communities.

But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure. Yet this is the level of organisation that does the actual thinking—and is, presumably, the seat of consciousness.