In Re: climate change I was nursed on the idea that living things adapt through mutation driven diversity and became a fervent acolyte all my life. Temperature and sea levels are on the rise. By current estimates from NOAA and other sources it will take 7 or 8 years for sea level to rise one…
Muscle Learning in the heart and muscle. In 1949 Donald Hebb famously proposed in the book, The Organization of Behavior a revolutionary idea: Activation of pre-synaptic neurons leads to strengthening connections between neurons. This idea immediately gave birth to a physiologic model for learning. Any activation of a neuron that stimulates another neuron, especially recurrent…