[Hplusroadmap] Fwd: Your Plastic Brain

[Bryan Bishop]

On Tuesday 20 May 2008, Dan Bolser wrote:
> All of the humanities, social sciences, and physical sciences,
> insofar as they deal with human nature, are affected, as are all
> forms of training. All of these disciplines will have to come to
> terms with the fact of the self-changing brain and with the
> realization that the architecture of the brain differs from one
> person to the next and that it changes in the course of our lives.
> The human brain has
> underestimated itself.

That's a common sentiment -- that all of the other fields of study need 
to change -- but it doesn't seem to be all that well understood by 
many. I wonder why. Likely just the nature of large, slow-to-update 
systems.

- Bryan
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