your brain forms neural architectures for specific tasks by taking a bunch of neurons that are hanging around, throwing the task at them, taking the ones that form a successful adaptation and letting the rest die, but sure, learning is magic and you don't have any limits
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Replying to @chaosprime @kreuelt
Are you sure you aren't confusing pruning and apoptosis?
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i don't think i am but my epistemic status is "Wile E. Coyote after he runs off the cliff but before he looks down" in general so "sure" would be overstating the case
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things i have seen in the course of trying to find the things i was reading that i formed this picture from have led me to believe i did in fact conflate those things so y'know good call so yeah
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Replying to @chaosprime @kreuelt
I mean it is harder to learn things in adulthood yes and you should *absolutely* be mad at corporate micromanagement for programming us into drones but you've always got room to learn.
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yeah, it just hurts more and more
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