{"id":179,"date":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-08-03T18:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T18:38:15","slug":"neuron-same-as-moron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/?p=179","title":{"rendered":"NEURON = MORON?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Over 80% of our neural connections are made after birth. 3\/4 of brain development happens during the 3 years after birth.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Human beings create ignited neural circuits all the time. We may refer to them as &#8216;<span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">neural entities<\/span>&#8216; because they often operate independently, displaying their own social, emotional, and physical characteristics. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The process of creating such an <span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">entity<\/span> usually begins when <span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong>we assign a name to something or someone<\/strong><\/span>. The <span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">object or being<\/span> we label is <strong><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">NOT<\/span><\/strong> the actual thing, but an image of it that&#8217;s projected onto a &#8216;screen&#8217; somewhere in our head. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">If <span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">we don&#8217;t appreciate that image<\/span>, the entity recalled by it &#8211; a <span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">unique neural circuit<\/span>&#8211; will then try to acquire attention via admiration, approval, disapproval or condemnation. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The energy of our attention at the moment the neural circuit is activated is the entity&#8217;s only means of staying &#8216;alive&#8217;.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"?p=180\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">read more &#8230;\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/4-2011-pics\/Octo-overdoing.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"154\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 80% of our neural connections are made after birth. 3\/4 of brain development happens during the 3 years after birth. Human beings create ignited neural circuits all the time. We may refer to them as &#8216;neural entities&#8216; because they often operate independently, displaying their own social, emotional, and physical characteristics. The process of creating&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2460,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9143,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions\/9143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}