Synapses are where repeated neural activity leaves self-transforming traces

Evidence

The synapse is the privileged locus where nerve activity can leave a trace that can displace itself, modify itself, and transform itself through repetition of a past function. — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 84

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Neural fibers and synapses continue forming and rewiring until death — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 99; Learning is fundamentally the changing of synaptic connections — Brian Christian, The Alignment Problem, 1485; Repeated external change becomes internal change through reversal of passivity into activity (+8 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Neural fibers and synapses continue forming and rewiring until death — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 99; Learning is fundamentally the changing of synaptic connections — Brian Christian, The Alignment Problem, 1485; Repeated external change becomes internal change through reversal of passivity into activity (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Neurotransmitter loss in the synaptic cleft produces auditory adaptation. #complicates (0.72) — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 1644