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#119 – David Eagleman: Neuroplasticity and the Livewired Brain

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Why You Choose Live Wire Instead of Plasticity

The brain is constantly rewiring your entire life. You never hit an end point. The whole point is for it to keep changing. So I use the term plasticity in the book, but sparingly because that was a term coined by William James over a hundred years ago. And so maybe we use, maybe we'll use a lot of terms that are synonymous. Something is malleable, changing, live-wide.

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