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Reading neuroscience next to trauma lit is interesting, because brain plasticity is celebrated as the physiological mechanism of learning, yet it's also the reason people get trapped in traumatic scripts, defaulting to what's protected them in the past, even as it wrecks their life in the present. Traumas that fire together, wire together. It's so much easier to reinforce habits than break them.

— Nov 08, 2025 12:39AM

How We Learn: The New Science of Education and the Brain

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The blindspots of neuroscientists are crazy. This guy gives great empirical evidence of babies having an understanding of object coherence, deductive reasoning, and number theory, gives a speculative account of what's going on behind the curtain, then doesn't connect them together at all. He just keeps repeating all this happens in the brain, because all he's analysing are brain scans. What the heck??

— Oct 25, 2025 02:21AM