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How brain adapts to fast changing world
Our ability to respond to the challenges of the fast-changing world comes from our brains ability to flexibly combine and repurpose the neural resources that evolution has provided us, researchers report. Online dating, chatty smartphones and social media played no role in the evolution of our ancestors,
New York: Our ability to respond to the challenges of the fast-changing world comes from our brains ability to flexibly combine and repurpose the neural resources that evolution has provided us, researchers report. Online dating, chatty smartphones and social media played no role in the evolution of our ancestors, yet humans manage to deal with and even exploit these hallmarks of modern living, they noted.
This repurposing allows us to do a lot with a little. Our brains have the flexibility to form new combinations of pre-existing computations and deploy these computations rapidly and flexibly in new contexts. Cultural repurposing refers to the process by which cultural inventions such as reading, musical forms and belief systems are acquired in a lifetime by co-opting pre-existing brain circuits. It is how we intentionally and creatively push our old evolutionary buttons to influence our own and others' behaviours.
