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Can you explain what that means? Being repurposed for what and why would that be something we’ve evolved to avoid?



It's like how the visual neurons of blind people get repurposed for other senses. Turns out this happens so quickly we can start to lose visual function in just the 8 hours our eyes are closed while we sleep.

Can't remember source but heard this theory on a podcast.


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