Dr. Michael Kilgard

We train it on every word we ever wrote, the whole species.

And then that went into these billions of connections, and those billions of connections produce something that's

Relatively sophisticated.

The same thing for a child.

Here's a child.

The experiences they have matter.

All the kids are going to learn to walk, almost all of them, by a year.

But a lot of things happen during that year.

A lot of falls, a lot of tumbles, a lot of what's, a lot of stares.

And so I think for me, having those, a large fraction of experiences be what I call real, having the statistics of the natural world, things that our grandparents would have recognized and been familiar, that's likely to be something that's good for your brain, both as a youth,

as well as a full-grown adult.

Then you ask the question, how about at the end of life?

At the end of life, is it now okay?

My brain's already done.

Can I swipe to my heart's consent?

Can I watch Wheel of Fortune or whatever I want all day long?

The evidence suggests it also causes depression and anxiety.

If your day doesn't involve other people communicating, if there aren't surprises, someone knocks on the door.

When I was a kid, people knocked on the door a lot.

It was a big surprise.