
BI 127 Tomás Ryan: Memory, Instinct, and Forgetting
Brain Inspired
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Biological Plasticity in the Lifetime of the Organism
Biological plasticity in the lifetime of the organism allows you to test drive different states, different different spaces that are possible for you to exert a in your lifetime. When you find something that works, it then creates a kind of a nesh whereby a random mutation that results a developmental change that mimics that type of experiential plasticity will be immediately valuable to the organism. And what happens by learning can definitely happen byy development. We can only do a few things in our brain with learning. But development is the reason why you are human and not a tiger or a fruit fly. Your development can decide how size. It can decide whether you have seven or four layers of cortex
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