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If these mutations are random they can probably be ignored. They likely have no effect or negative effects. Your brain might actually improve a lot by removing
by Houshalter 11y ago
If these mutations are random they can probably be ignored. They likely have no effect or negative effects. Your brain might actually improve a lot by removing them.
If they aren't random and there is some purpose or information encoded in them, then you have a good point. I think that's unlikely though.
- russdill 11y agoClearly you haven't worked on an old buggy codebase. Sure that function has a bug, but the rest of the codebase has adapted to it and worked around it. If the function suddenly doesn't have a bug, dozens of other functions will fail in new and strange ways. The brain would work in a very similar way. If a neuron has a mutation that effects it's function, surrounding neurons would adapt to that.
- logfromblammo 11y agoHaving worked in such codebases, the only difference that should be happening is that a lot of that old, redundant code inserted to work around the bug would no longer be visited.