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by x0137294744532 2600 days ago
Maybe the amount of neurons grows as their "usage percentage" reaches a certain threshold, making the memory capacity unlimited.
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Surely we've done enough brain experimentation to know that "people who do more learning have more neurons" is false?
Well, haven't there been findings that London cab drivers have higher-volume hippocampuses because they use them more in orientation[0] and that meditation increases white/gray matter[1]?

0: https://www.wired.com/2011/12/london-taxi-driver-memory/

1: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3004979/