The Brain’s Amazing Ability to Change — David Eagleman Breaks It Down

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  You know, you can't tear half the circuitry out of my cell phone and expect it to still work,

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  but you can do that with the brain.

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  Hey everyone, it's Rosie here.

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  Welcome back to Radio Headspace.

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  So, like many of you, after I had COVID, I didn't feel like myself.

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  I felt foggy, my memory was bad, and I was just off.

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  But a friend of mine reassured me that my brain is elastic.

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  and that everything would be fine.

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  And of course, everything is back to normal now.

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  But that left a big question.

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  What exactly is brain elasticity?

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  And to answer that, I called up Stanford neuroscientist Dr. David Eagleman.

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  Much like me, David is obsessed with understanding how the brain works.

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  And the conclusion he's come to is that our brain is basically the most advanced piece of software in the world.

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  I always find it so fascinating to hear people's stories of why they decided to study the brain

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  because it is such a complex structure.

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  So I'm curious for you and you don't have to take long to respond, but I'm just curious.

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  Yeah.

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  Well, for me,

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  I was in college and I was taking a lot of philosophy classes and I really enjoyed these philosophical conundrums that you spin yourself down into and so on.

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