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?
