Re-wiring the Brain

     The human brain has an amazing ability to actively re-wire it's self if needed. In this way the brain is always ready and able to adapt to new situations by reorganizing portions of it's self to meet the demands of a growing, learning, and healing person. It has been shown that the human brain retains this function well into adulthood.
     Who we are is in are brains. Everything I know, think, feel, anticipate, and all that I am, is based on connections within my brain. By me writing this and as you reading it, what is happening is my brain is communicating to your brain. Our bodies are just here to assist our brains.
     Michael Merzenich is a Neuroscientist who wants to make use of that plasticity of the brain through technologies to enhance learning abilities as well as heal injured brains. Merzenich speaks about his ambitions at a TED conference in this video.