... about a month I found it possible to make a habit of organizing my thoughts and sustaining my attention without medication.  Just as Barbara had realized when she trained and stimulated neural networks through repetition of brain exercises that targeted problem areas, I realized firsthand that "Children with learning disabilities can often go beyond compensation and correct their underlying problems."(Doidge ... 's "use it or lose it" philosophy on brain plasticity really makes sense when I consider it in the context of my own life. Although I eventually strengthened the neural networks ...

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... several million times more powerful than anything created by man. Our brains create our sense of self, our consciousness. This very personal part of each of us is created by neural networks in our skulls, a concept so hard to believe that a large percentage of the population instead believe our "self" is generated by a supernatural soul. It is now 2043, and regardless of ... is reasonable to declare the machine conscious if its behavior were indistinguishable from a normal human. Its brain is made of wires and circuits that function similarly to our nerves and neural networks. For that ...

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... several million times more powerful than anything created by man. Our brains create our sense of self, our consciousness. This very personal part of each of us is created by neural networks in our skulls, a concept so hard to believe that a large percentage of the population instead believe our "self" is generated by a supernatural soul. It is now 2043, and regardless of ... is reasonable to declare the machine conscious if its behavior were indistinguishable from a normal human. Its brain is made of wires and circuits that function similarly to our nerves and neural networks. For that ...

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... the fetus starts to develop either female ovaries or male testicles. The theory is that hormones produced by the developing testes might be produced off schedule and cause the brain's neural networks to develop in such a way that the child will exhibit homosexual indicators in early childhood, and therefore, he will mature into a gay male. Lab experiments on rats and monkeys have ... ...

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