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Learning the Concept of a Coffee Cup
In some ways, to learn the concept of a coffee cup, you only need this one coffee cup and may be some time alone in a room with it. In the brain, am the way learning occurs, i mentioned this ro about. I imagine i am a section of a dendrite of a neuron, and i want to learn something new. So what i'm going to do is form new synapses,. New synnapses re wire the brain on o that section of the dendrite. Once i've done that, everything else that nuron has learned is not affected by it. It can take maybe an hour to form a new synnaps. We can form memories