The Full Implications of Neuroplasticity

[Sithri]

I am loving these posts about how experience shapes the brain, and that each brain is unique. If it weren't so, we would all have the same memories, speech, knowledge, etc. And the comparison to phrenology is spot on. If we want to understand the mind, we must first start with the mind, and then the brain. What is the reason for our first-personal awareness of our own immaterial minds? If it's the brain, then we would expect to find, such as in awake neurosurgery, a 'happening' of certain mental aspects that occur simultaneously with the brain's functioning. The hard problem of consciousness is muddled more by unique brains.

[Brigit Bara]

Yes, and the interesting part is that not only experience and bonds structure the brain, but the timing of the learning also appears to be very important. But as GaryN posted, one man is getting along in life with only the cortex and cerebellum.



Now that has to be about the most extreme form of neuroplasticity there is!