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• LEARNING IS PROJECTING A
• Everyone agrees that today’s neural networks learn far too slowly: they need thousands, millions, even billions of data points to develop an intuition of a domain.
• Forget everything you were told about the respective roles of both hemispheres, because Nico’s life proves that anyone can become a creative and talented artist without a right hemisphere! Cerebral plasticity seems to work miracles.
• Brain plasticity almost seems temperamental: sometimes it overcomes massive difficulties, and other times it leaves children and adults who are otherwise highly motivated and intelligent with debilitating disabilities. Does it depend on particular circuits? Do these circuits lose their plasticity over the years? Can plasticity be reopened? What are...
• The ability to learn, on the other hand, acts much faster—it can change behavior within the span of a few minutes, which is the very quintessence of learning: being able to adapt to unpredictable conditions as quickly as possible.