The history is important because science is a discipline deeply immersed in history. In other words, every time you perform an experiment in science or in medicine, what you’re actually doing is you’re answering someone, answering a question raised by someone in the past.
The reasons for this paring back of synapses is a mystery, but synaptic pruning is thought to sharpen and reinforce the correct synapses, while removing the weak and unnecessary ones. It reinforces an old intuition, a psychiatrist in Boston told me. The secret of learning is the systematic elimination of excess. We grow, mostly, by dying.
Freaks become norms, and norms become extinct. Monster by monster, evolution advanced
In God we trust. All others [must] have data. – Bernard Fisher
Science is among the most profoundly human of our activities. Far from being subsumed by the dehumanising effects of technology, science, in fact, remains our last stand against it.
Illness might progressively vanish so might identity. Grief might be diminished, but so might tenderness. Traumas might be erased but so might history. Infirmities might disappear, but so might vulnerability. Chance would become mitigated, but so, inevitably, would choice.