New Insights on the Brain (Introduction)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Friday, July 22, 2011, 00:15 (4874 days ago) @ David Turell

While I agree that the study is fascinating, and that children who are read to have higher IQ's, I am not certain how the first article supports, or even relates, to that observation as it is focused on highly charged emotional events creating new neurons.
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> You are right. But what the overall impression suggests is the true plasticity of the brain early in life, and the unlikelihood that artificial intelligence science will ever equal the input and output of the human brain. Can a computer change its synapses?-I think the Big Blue project from IBM had something similar to that process in its architecture. Not that it will compete with the human brain, but I know they are at least attempting to compensate for it. The simple truth is that we are wonderfully made. (Regardless of whether we believe in Chance, Jehovah, Allah, Brahma, Kronos, or Ra...)