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For many years, it was believed that the connections between neurons in an adult brain were fixed. Learning, it was believed, involved increasing or decreasing the strength of synapses. This is still how learning occurs in most artificial neural networks.
However, over the past few decades, scientists have discovered that in many parts of the brain, including the neocortex, new synapses form and old ones disappear. Every day, many of the synapses on an individual neuron will disappear and new on
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― A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
― A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
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Neurons giveth,
neurons taketh away.
By neurons we forge self,
with neurons we fade away.
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― Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience
― Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience
