Theo Von
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It's modified by experience just by being in those experiences.
It's modified by experience just by being in those experiences.
You can literally wire neurons to other neurons very readily. I mean, this is... known for a long time, but it was really formalized by my scientific great grandparents, David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel. They won a Nobel prize for showing that if you take a cat, a monkey, or a kid, and you close one eyelid for just a few hours each day,
You can literally wire neurons to other neurons very readily. I mean, this is... known for a long time, but it was really formalized by my scientific great grandparents, David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel. They won a Nobel prize for showing that if you take a cat, a monkey, or a kid, and you close one eyelid for just a few hours each day,
You can literally wire neurons to other neurons very readily. I mean, this is... known for a long time, but it was really formalized by my scientific great grandparents, David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel. They won a Nobel prize for showing that if you take a cat, a monkey, or a kid, and you close one eyelid for just a few hours each day,
The brain becomes blind to visual input through that eye once you open the eye up, unless you do something else like close the other eye in order to reverse that plasticity. However, if today I just- Yeah, that's how fast and permanent it is unless you do something to reverse it. But if I did that same thing to you now or me now, there'd be no brain change.
The brain becomes blind to visual input through that eye once you open the eye up, unless you do something else like close the other eye in order to reverse that plasticity. However, if today I just- Yeah, that's how fast and permanent it is unless you do something to reverse it. But if I did that same thing to you now or me now, there'd be no brain change.
The brain becomes blind to visual input through that eye once you open the eye up, unless you do something else like close the other eye in order to reverse that plasticity. However, if today I just- Yeah, that's how fast and permanent it is unless you do something to reverse it. But if I did that same thing to you now or me now, there'd be no brain change.
You close your eye, obviously you can't see through a closed eye. Pop open the eyelid later, you see just fine. So we know that from until about age 25, the brain just modifies itself based on experience. So if you're doing cocaine, amphetamine, or let's just stay with this example, you're watching high intensity violent porn. with more than two people, right?
You close your eye, obviously you can't see through a closed eye. Pop open the eyelid later, you see just fine. So we know that from until about age 25, the brain just modifies itself based on experience. So if you're doing cocaine, amphetamine, or let's just stay with this example, you're watching high intensity violent porn. with more than two people, right?
You close your eye, obviously you can't see through a closed eye. Pop open the eyelid later, you see just fine. So we know that from until about age 25, the brain just modifies itself based on experience. So if you're doing cocaine, amphetamine, or let's just stay with this example, you're watching high intensity violent porn. with more than two people, right?
You know, we forget that every time you add another person, you know, it's two women and one guy, or it's, you know, what's this woman on X? I mean, I have to say it makes, it gives me an aversive response, which I think is the healthy response. Every time she announces, I think she's like sleeping with a hundred and then a thousand people. And listen,
You know, we forget that every time you add another person, you know, it's two women and one guy, or it's, you know, what's this woman on X? I mean, I have to say it makes, it gives me an aversive response, which I think is the healthy response. Every time she announces, I think she's like sleeping with a hundred and then a thousand people. And listen,
You know, we forget that every time you add another person, you know, it's two women and one guy, or it's, you know, what's this woman on X? I mean, I have to say it makes, it gives me an aversive response, which I think is the healthy response. Every time she announces, I think she's like sleeping with a hundred and then a thousand people. And listen,
This is like methamphetamine with heroin and you get the picture, it's starting to layer in all these different things. And so the young, you think about the young male brain in particular, young female brain watching this stuff, And it's not just setting a behavioral expectation, because we always hear about that. They think sex is like that, and it's not.
This is like methamphetamine with heroin and you get the picture, it's starting to layer in all these different things. And so the young, you think about the young male brain in particular, young female brain watching this stuff, And it's not just setting a behavioral expectation, because we always hear about that. They think sex is like that, and it's not.
This is like methamphetamine with heroin and you get the picture, it's starting to layer in all these different things. And so the young, you think about the young male brain in particular, young female brain watching this stuff, And it's not just setting a behavioral expectation, because we always hear about that. They think sex is like that, and it's not.
It's setting this incredibly high threshold for what they consider stimulating. Not just stimulating sexually, but stimulating mentally. It's crazy. It's like, you know, listen, I like playing cards every once in a while. So you go play a card game with your friends.
It's setting this incredibly high threshold for what they consider stimulating. Not just stimulating sexually, but stimulating mentally. It's crazy. It's like, you know, listen, I like playing cards every once in a while. So you go play a card game with your friends.
It's setting this incredibly high threshold for what they consider stimulating. Not just stimulating sexually, but stimulating mentally. It's crazy. It's like, you know, listen, I like playing cards every once in a while. So you go play a card game with your friends.