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#119 – David Eagleman: Neuroplasticity and the Livewired Brain

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Is the Brain Adapting to the Wholeness?

The brain is able to adjust to it and somehow form a worldview within this new medium of like information that we have. The experiences you have in the womb, like whether you're mother's smoking or drinking, things like that, all influence how you're going to pop out of the womb. So there used to be a big debate about nature versus nurture. And we now know that it's always both. You can't even separate them because you come to the table with a certain amount of nature.

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