Our brains can rewire themselves in just seconds to compensate for a break in incoming data, suggesting they are even more flexible than previously thought.
We already knew that the brain is constantly adapting throughout our lives, for example by generating new neurons well into adulthood. But just how quickly can it adapt – and does it always involve creating new circuits?
To investigate these questions, Daniel Dilks and his colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology took advantage of the blind spots that occur naturally in our eyes where the optic nerve exits the retina. The brain normally combines images captured by both eyes to fill in the resulting gaps in vision, but Dilks prevented this in 48 volunteers by patching one eye.
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ha ha. I’m so going to use that as a come back when ppl think i’ve lost my trail of thought. (which i have but i.ll look intelligent if i say the above!)
Only will rewire that fast if people are set into that focus.
The speed of the brain is also very upclose it you start thinking about that people dont seem to think about what they are saying … so not the more slow debates and such .. in which people think it over more carefully, but the daily communication … and I dont mean the routine talks…. the more it is in your interest the more you can speed up without even thinking when speaking … or is it the frontal lobe that instead of working itself on the inside, so thinking, that comes out …. How fast … it’s amazing. I find that amazing, it intrigues me.
I like to slow it down from time to time to see what happens … or split up myself to see it come out on the other side (left and right wing of the brain) … It’s def. fascinating. Not very usefull, but fascinating … as it tells us more about our so called self .. or should I say .selves …
I know why this rewiring is so often not working in most brains .. it’s quite upclose to all of us … we all know when friends are at times (or maybe never) are not on in that focus … We all know how we use our brains.
The older we get, the more aware we will become of this. And see our limits as well. No longer set in one focus in socializing .. We allow our brain to screw up at times in public .. as we dont bother so much anymore about being seen as stupid … it’s a very human thing. We dont need to be on top of ourselves all the time. We may relax at times, or feel depressed or numbed, or just hang in this complete nothing, in this “I’m am so not into this world today” mood .. I wont work my brain today.
In the end .. lots of it is just being used as an additional tool, not always very usefull or to our own benefit.
Humans seem to be the least smart of all if you look at it more closely … and at the same time from a larger distance .. We could not be satisfied with these normal selfes so we started living for a major part from these selves which are not really connected to ourselves, in a very indirect way .. as we apparently have a tendency to drop dead very soon … We are the weaker species. And we can’t get out of this system anymore either. Have to live life on a daily bases as it has been prescribed .. Which is not so healthy … will trigger manhy diseases … which makes life a living hell for many till their final day. Most may not be in theirselves at all anymore as that would cause their death way sooner already (although most dont see that death yet, but the loss of their independency ..).
So now we bloody amuse ourselves with out brain … as if we are on top of it .. but we can’t be on top of it .. as we are in it … we are wht we are plainly due to this brain .. We are interaction between brain and body … (that goes for most life forms but hey ..). But above all .. we are just those tiny little dots .. using the brain .. to see and understand .. driven by one single insult once perhaps .. fear ..
I wonder what hypothesis they connected to this type of research to get funded … You normally need a hypothesis that shows that it will benefit to human society … But maybe that is not the case in neurosurgery?
These type of research seems plainly to be about studying the brain … without a hypothesis … You might wonder at times … to what limit you want things to be studied … Especially if there is many deaths involved of animals and so much money. And depression of the scientists theirselves. Not that I want them out of their job.
Life .. perfection will never be possible ..