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Meditation: What Actually Changes in Your Brain

Meditation: What Actually Changes in Your Brain

Meditation has a reputation problem. People think it is spiritual. Mystical. Optional. The neuroscience says otherwise. Meditation physically rewires your brain. The changes are visible on an MRI. Eight weeks of consistent meditation practice increases grey matter density in the prefrontal cortex. The prefrontal cortex is the region responsible for

Back Propagation in the Brain

Back Propagation in the Brain

Your brain does not learn like a textbook says it does. For decades, scientists believed back propagation was only a machine learning trick. A method reserved for artificial neural networks. Turns out, your brain may be doing something eerily similar. What Is Back Propagation? In artificial intelligence, back propagation is