Chapter One
The Brain Is a Connection Machine
Your brain craves patterns and searches for them endlessly.
Thomas B. Czerner (2001)
Scientists have discovered that our brain is a connection machine. Or to be more specific, the underlying functionality of our brain is one of finding associations, connections, and links between bits of information.
1 Our thoughts, memories, skills, and attributes are vast sets of connections or "maps"
2 joined together via complex chemical and physical pathways. I will call these connections maps from here on as it's a short, memorable word; however you can replace this word with
circuits, wiring, or
neural pathway if you prefer.
To give you a sense of the complexity of these maps, imagine a topographic map of one square m ...
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