Dr. Michael Kilgard
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No, I shouldn't have said that.
All of us do.
But the idea that I can change it and I can make amends for that, I can say that wasn't what I meant to say.
I apologize for that.
That's really exciting that there's a biological basis for it.
And it's this four-factor learning rule.
where there's some proteins, receptors that are having binding of glutamate, serotonin, and norepinephrine, all these words you've talked about before, but they add up to something.
They don't eliminate me.
They add up to me.
I think that's something we can really be proud of.
And I think you're getting this information out to audiences is really exciting because people have the right to know this.
Taxpayer money paid for all this knowledge.
We've learned all this stuff.
And it has real implications, whether it's for how we treat people with disability, how we treat our elders, how we treat people who've committed crimes, all these things.
have implications, and I'm not saying everyone needs to become a neuroscientist by any means, but it's not just a curiosity.
It's not just a laboratory trick we wanted to work out.
This understanding has implications, and we've been building, as our forefathers did in other fields, physics and all the rest.
They've built all the way where their model of physics is pretty good.
Our model of the brain is not there yet.
We're not at that level of understanding everything, but moving in that direction toward eventually being able to find some child or some older person who's got a real problem