Diane Benscoter on how cults rewire the brain

An FPGA is, in essence, a computer chip that can rewire itself for a given task.

We will explore how key ideas in the architecture of the internet and of discourse can rewire our societies for resilience, reflection and deep research.

In just a two minute span of time done for 21 days in a row, we can actually rewire your brain, allowing your brain to actually work more optimistically and more successfully.

Depending on the application of each network, one can start with one such ultra small world network, and then rewire some edges, or use several small such networks as subgraphs to a larger graph.

And after 70 hours of intensive singing lessons, he found that the music was able to literally rewire the brains of his patients and create a homologous speech center in their right hemisphere to compensate for the left hemisphere's damage.

But the more that I think about it, the more that I think that a few things that we have learned along the way are interesting lessons for how we would rewire if we we wanted to use the web to have a wider world.