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#119 – David Eagleman: Neuroplasticity and the Livewired Brain
Lex Fridman Podcast
How Much of the Malleability Is Hardware and Software?
As activity passes through the system, it changes things. The receptor distribution inside that neuron so that you're more or less sensitive to the neurotransmitter than the structure of the neuron itself and what's happening there are all plastic. And my way of thinking about this is in analogy to pace layers. You've got all these different layers of things that are changing at different pace, at different speeds.
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