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BS 187 David Eagleman on his new book "LiveWired"

Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone

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How Does Change at Synapses Work?

When you try to put, let's say, 50 years of memories into it by just changing synnapses, you eventually run out of spa and you run out of everything starts becoming muddy. But that's not what actually happens with humans. What happens with humans is that older memories become more stable. And so i propose a neural, pace layer way of thinking about this, which is you've got these changes that happen rapidly all the way to more slowly. This is an idea that stewart brand proposed for thinking about cities a long time ago. The river is flowing through the city here, but a million years ago it was flowing through over here. And then even more slowly, you

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