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#119 – David Eagleman: Neuroplasticity and the Livewired Brain

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How much of that is a quirk or a feature of evolution? Like how hard is it to engineer? Because evolution took a lot of work. Trillions of organisms had to die for it to create this thing we have in our skull. It's an extremely complicated system, but it's only going to be complicated until we figure out the general principles. The principles are that plasticity diminishes. That's no surprise.

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