Andrew Huberman· PhD
the developing brain is able to learn through passive experience because the neurons, the nerve cells in the developing brain are much more over-connected than they will be later in life.
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the developing brain is able to learn through passive experience because the neurons, the nerve cells in the developing brain are much more over-connected than they will be later in life.
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You know, so as you of course know, the the brain starts out, you got essentially a fixed number of neurons. There's some debate about whether there's a few new neurons born in humans or not. Put that aside. What happens is over the first two years, those neurons
And from there, it's just a matter of pruning an overgrown garden. And that's all that's happening. And and the way the pruning happens is based on what you're experiencing in the world.
What happens is over the first two years, those neurons connect more and more and more and more. And what you end up getting is this hyperconnection by the time you're two years old.