RE: What is brain Plasticity? How does it work? And what You can do to enhance the plasticity of your brain!
What a great review of this talk... I guess I must be highly positively biased as this is a TEDx Talk after all! ;)
I definitely love the line:"Neurons that fire together Wire together, Continuity breeds Connectivity!" There's so much content in there, it is breathtaking in itself.
I have always been fascinated by neurology as the sources of my experiences have to go through its filter. I am still amazed at the sheer size of our brain and, as you point out at the end of your article, the near future is going to be quite interesting with the development of neuro-mapping.
A point to underline and be aware of, the experience of dreams that the author relates to is extremely narrow and might have been a necessary objective to reach in order for the study to find relevance. One doesn't have to go far to come to the quick realization that dreams go far beyond the daily experience or its relations.
I will speak by experience here, though not the most common of people in relation to that. I have kept close records of my dreams and dream states since I was about 4 years old and, over the past 41 years have done a "few" experiments myself in relation to this. Results unforeseeable came countless times. To test it out, I had to make sure the results could be reproduced. Depending on the nature of the dreams, some can be voluntarily reproduced, and therefore easily tested and kept as data for further studies later.
Some dreams reproduce themselves without willfulness prying it to happen, as it usually stops it from happening in these instances. And some are in an in-between intentional willfulness and the other half comes from well beyond oneself... Anyway, it is a long, very long discussion. LOL!!! :)
Again, thanks again for a very good article shared with us all. All for one and one for all!
Namaste :)
Oh yes, I agree with you I'm biased myself, even stopped watching TED's for 3-4-5 years after that much of vigorously finding life's meaning every day in TED's(TV didn't cut it and I was a sad kid :D, so when I wasn't playing alone on the computer I was watching TED's and getting fascinated by the many many topics :) they used to be quite qualitative. "School kills creativity" "What is consciousness" .. "City planning" "Psychology" and .... , then I did get biased :D because I saw how most were narrow specialists and with a firm "understanding" of their world on which they have overlayed whatever they can to get through life.
Then I got tired of TED's and their quality shifted. Not much to watch 5 times day, so it went to 5 talks a year. Sure it's mainstream, sure they have their own understandings. But most people mean well, at least they think they do :D
And I agree with you on dreams, can't imagine what you use to keep those records, I for one have tried or at least tell myself I should write my dreams, but I sadly don't seem to follow up on that promise.
Have to say there are many kinds of dreams, the ones you are reviewing your day at the rat maze, the ones that bring you to a place where I'm not sure how to say it, "people are" I'm not sure what to say, but I've met with people that I've forgotten in real life, dunno I'm a newbie with dreams :D , almost have no rhyme or reason, can't even understand or remember them properly :D.
Anyways you are right and I'm grateful you pointed that out, more people should hear that their life isn't just Input Output(Binary) but that there is a vast network of interconnected layers, that work off each other in some way. So it's not just what happened today because that has no meaning/connection to what will happen next month and you just dreamt that, but you still don't know it, kind of way.
And I agree with you dreams are a TLDR; subject ;) I would like to learn more about.
One last thing I normally go on long rants and let my post get long, so this time I decided to stick to the subject at hand and still the "others" tend to pop up I'm quite fascinated with brain power and have been for years :)
So thank you for the comment and the "good review" :), maybe we can get a grip on dreams :D.
I'm nowhere near that level, so far I tend to write down some dreams and even then if I don't replay them tey seem do disappear, I was wondering if wen people "die and have their life flash by, " do their dreams flash by too :D ?
Also, I did ask myself what it would be like if I remembered my life and my dreams, so far I'm 70-80% conscious of my life. And about 5% of the dreams. Kind of a letdown, but dreams are insane. Can't even imagine how they form :D
Cheers! and yes 0=1 and 1=0 :D all for one and one for all