Dr. Michael Kilgard
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Then you'd have eugenics.
You'd have all these problems.
You'd have people are valued based on whether their genes are right or wrong.
Turns out the 20,000 genes doesn't explain us.
The hundreds of cell types don't explain us.
It's the synapses.
I think for a long time, we were hoping there'd be an easy fix.
If someone had a problem, it'd be nice.
If they just had too much blood, we can give them some leeches, drain the blood out.
They'd be back to good, right?
Saw George Washington died.
But now we're learning most people don't have four or five things that are right or wrong.
They've got billions.
But they're all changeable at any stage in life.
They get really hard.
Don't disagree to lose an accident, for example, or to get over a traumatic event.
It could be really difficult.
But the fact is the brain is plastic until the very day you die.
And that ability now to get our head around –
What do billions of connections mean?