The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
“Neurons that fire together wire together” are the words of Dr Carla Shatz @StanfordMed @Stanford (not the words of Donald Hebb as is commonly claimed). It describes the central feature of neuroplasticity, which is the nervous system‘s ability to change in response to experience.
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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brain plasticity, for anyone who doesn't know, it's it's that the brain is constantly reconfiguring itself every second of your life. You got 86 billion neurons. And really, the way to think about it, these are like little creatures that are all crawling around and moving around. each one is, you know, on average contacting 10,000 of its neighbors, but it's not like a fixed thing like you might see in a textbook. Instead, they're, you know, plugging and unplugging and searching around and finding new places to plug in, of course, changing the strength of those connections.