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Virtual neurons can be controlled in this way, with strict periods of time in which they are permitted to change and adapt. The human brain has no such limits, owing to what neuroscientists call “synaptic plasticity.” Every time nuerons fire, they alter the structure of their connections to one another. In other words, a functioning brain is a changing brain. As Dave Ackley puts it, “You must be impacted, or there is no experience.” This is what makes good conversations, and good living, risky. You can’t simply “get to know” a person without, to some degree, changing them - and without, to some degree becmoing than.

2019