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Everytime you learn something, a new connection is made.
« on: May 09, 2006, 08:14:27 PM »
This was a sentance or a general idea that was reiterated in many of my textbooks through out my life, in biology, psychology, and even less scientific studies like literature which seemed to be trying to make contemporary connections to their respective study.

Although i've not yet read how, in terms of the chemistry and the biology, how one of these connections is made.? I know how an action potential is generated, but i don't know how a connection between neurons is made.

It seems impossible for 2 neurons from total opposite sides of the brain to spontaneously make a connection.? The neuron is delicate, and seems like it would be blind.? I don't even see how 2 neurons right next to each other would know to form a connection.? Also something that bothers me is that it doesn't seem like at the rate neurons grow, and heal, and shit they would be able to form connections on demand fast enough if a connection was required to form a memory, and it seems likely that it would need to make a whole lot of connections rather than just one.

What I suspect is that that connection making thing was based on incomplete information.? I know that at some point in your development you need to form the connections, but are connections made every time you learn something?

Like when i watched shaun of the dead once, i could remember every scene, every quote, what they were wearing, the moment after i watched it, as well as days after.

It seems like if connections were the key to learning all that, so many would happen so fast that i'd probably have an anuerism.

So does anybody know the story on that curiosity in biology?? Or was it just wrong?
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Re: Everytime you learn something, a new connection is made.
« Reply #1 on: May 10, 2006, 04:51:36 AM »
its not simply about making connections.  its about what the connections are connecting to.

Even in life.  Even in your life.

Think of some of the social connections you have made and what that makes you.
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Re: Everytime you learn something, a new connection is made.
« Reply #2 on: May 10, 2006, 06:38:13 AM »
I don't know all that much about biopsych as I didn't retain much from the course, Nomaken, unfortunately.  I could look it up as I still have the textbook but can't be arsed.

its not simply about making connections.? its about what the connections are connecting to.

Even in life.? Even in your life.

Think of some of the social connections you have made and what that makes you.

This was an actual biology question, not a question about a cliched metaphor.? Other places I might let it slide but that was just lame.
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Re: Everytime you learn something, a new connection is made.
« Reply #3 on: May 10, 2006, 06:40:54 AM »
I don't know all that much about biopsych as I didn't retain much from the course, Nomaken, unfortunately.  I could look it up as I still have the textbook but can't be arsed.

its not simply about making connections.  its about what the connections are connecting to.

Even in life.  Even in your life.

Think of some of the social connections you have made and what that makes you.

This was an actual biology question, not a question about a cliched metaphor.  Other places I might let it slide but that was just lame.

That's just McJ's lame attempt at being profound. Pay no heed.

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Re: Everytime you learn something, a new connection is made.
« Reply #4 on: May 10, 2006, 06:42:28 AM »
That's just McJ's lame attempt at being profound. Pay no heed.

I know; it just seemed really flagrant here for some reason.? I still have respect for McJ by and large, I just have no respect for the placement of that one post, BTW.? ?((As on here someone might misconsture that as a vendetta post))
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Re: Everytime you learn something, a new connection is made.
« Reply #5 on: May 10, 2006, 01:41:49 PM »
Unless i nisread his opening statement which read:

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This was a sentance or a general idea that was reiterated in many of my textbooks through out my life, in biology, psychology, and even less scientific studies like literature which seemed to be trying to make contemporary connections to their respective study.

Namoken gave an example from biology.  i gave a different example.

he did write "trying to make contemporary connections in their respective study."  which meant to me, that, connections are universal and can be applied to many different things as far as survival is concerned.

maybe i misread.  maybe you did.  maybe peagai was looking to pile on.
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Re: Everytime you learn something, a new connection is made.
« Reply #6 on: May 10, 2006, 02:09:12 PM »
peegai!....


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Re: Everytime you learn something, a new connection is made.
« Reply #7 on: May 10, 2006, 03:32:25 PM »
I have just found that more textbooks about whatever subject i've been forced to buy have made what i'm going to call token references to current research in biology.  I think they are just trying to use the sciences new statements and research as vague support to make their points sound more scientific.  Because i've seen subjects(literature, religion, ect) using recent research(at the time) that in the context of the actual research had absolutely NOTHING to do with, or intended to be used to support the point those subjects were trying to make.  And more reason why I feel they are just token references is that the quotes they are using are incomplete, and mean different things when taken in context of the research, and probably were proved wrong by the time of usage in that subject.
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Re: Everytime you learn something, a new connection is made.
« Reply #8 on: May 10, 2006, 03:57:07 PM »
You learn something new every day!

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Re: Everytime you learn something, a new connection is made.
« Reply #9 on: May 11, 2006, 06:35:11 AM »
peegai!....



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Re: Everytime you learn something, a new connection is made.
« Reply #10 on: May 11, 2006, 10:55:32 AM »
maybe peagai was looking to pile on.

it was pretty pathetic, but then i'll try anything to cheer myself up.   :-\

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Re: Everytime you learn something, a new connection is made.
« Reply #11 on: May 11, 2006, 07:49:29 PM »
I got it. I didn't know whether to laugh out loud or hit myself to put myself out of my misery at the sheer awfulness.
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Re: Everytime you learn something, a new connection is made.
« Reply #12 on: May 11, 2006, 11:00:56 PM »
either is fine, pyraxis - at least someone else got it...   :-\

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Re: Everytime you learn something, a new connection is made.
« Reply #13 on: May 12, 2006, 03:36:15 AM »
It's certainly one hell of an erection. <Sorry, engineer's joke>
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