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Arne's avatar

One puzzling element in the man as machine construct is that people can intentionally change their own brains. If you go from listening to music all day to completely ceasing to listen to music, for example, the sound-processing part of your brain will be altered.

I have only a pop science understanding of this, but it does happen.

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David Shane's avatar

I have long found it interesting that we have to work to understand ourselves, as if we are studying ourselves from the outside.

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