The process by which our brains are molded by our lived environments doesn’t end there. Neurological reorganization and development continue into early adulthood and into our dotage even if as we age the process tends to be driven more by decline rather than growth or regeneration. Ironically our species’ extraordinary plasticity when young and the extent to which it declines as we get older also accounts for why as we age we become more stubbornly resistant to change; why habits acquired when we are young are so hard to break when we are old; why we tend to imagine that our cultural beliefs
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