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Sep 12, 2026
Joe DispenzaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Nerve cells that fire together, wire together.
Joe DispenzaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It's called Hebbian learning.
Joe DispenzaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And if you repeat a thought, an action, a behavior... a skill over and over again with awareness, with attention, neurons tend to gang up.
Joe DispenzaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And if you keep doing it over and over again, over and over again, over and over again, over and over again, those nerves begin to release a miracle grow, a chemical, a fertilizer to cause neurons to become more enriched and to sprout new connections.
Brandi GardenHOST
This is old science that has needed to be reworked and reset and brought into context so that we can get down exactly what you said of this.
Brandi GardenHOST
What you're running, nerve cells that fire together, wire together, is Hebbian law.
Brandi GardenHOST
It is the basis, and he's Canadian, and he was born on my birthday, and it's the basis of most psychology textbooks out there.
Brandi GardenHOST
And it means nothing to 99% of people who hear it.
Bardia RezHOST
The first thing you understand when you look at the neuroscience of the brain and how things work is...
Bardia RezHOST
It's called Hebb's Law.
Bardia RezHOST
Neurons that fire together wire together.
Bardia RezHOST
This is the basics of learning.
Type Three AudioNARRATOR
Subheading.
Type Three AudioNARRATOR
Hebbian concept removal side quest.
Type Three AudioNARRATOR
Training directly against a probe only gives a training signal to earlier layers, where earlier layers means the layers before the activations that the probe sees.
Type Three AudioNARRATOR
So I thought why not also train the later layers.
Type Three AudioNARRATOR
But of course, what does it mean train the later layers? They don't affect the probe.
Type Three AudioNARRATOR
Enter Hebbian learning.
Type Three AudioNARRATOR
If you just weaken all the connections that fire along with the probe and strengthen the ones that don't, you can propagate concept removal into the later layers.
Type Three AudioNARRATOR
If the normal concept removal was only training the model to not think to lie, Hebbian concept removal also damages the machinery of lying itself.
speaker_2HOST
A physical biological reality in your brain.
speaker_2HOST
It all comes down to neuroplasticity and this principle known as Hebbian learning.
Kevin AndersonHOST
Hebbian learning?
speaker_2HOST
Yeah.
speaker_2HOST
The shorthand for it in neuroscience is neurons that fire together, wire together.
Asheritah CiuciuGUEST
Because of something called neuroplasticity, our brains can grow and change over time.
Asheritah CiuciuGUEST
And something I think called Hebb's Law means the neurons that wire together fire together.
Asheritah CiuciuGUEST
So the more we practice rhythms of delight, the more we practice...
Asheritah CiuciuGUEST
So calming down in that moment, bringing these things to the Lord in prayer, taking a deep breath, going for a walk, spending time meditating on God's word.
Joe DispenzaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
the brain reorganizes itself to reflect what we've learned from the environment.
Joe DispenzaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So now that concept of Hebbian learning says nerve cells that fire together wire together, which means the more you think the same thoughts and the more you repeat the same actions, the more the brain is going to reflect the same thoughts and the same actions.
Joe DispenzaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And actually, it's going to grow new circuits and more enriched connections.
Joe DispenzaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So law of repetition says if we repeat a thought, an action, or a skill over and over again, it begins to become easy, familiar, common, second nature, routine, effortless, subconscious, unconscious.
Valerie PomeroyGUEST
The plasticity that happens there, if it happens to be maladaptive, is very difficult to change once it's established.
Valerie PomeroyGUEST
You can't unpick it in the same way that you can unpick Hebbian plasticity.
Valerie PomeroyGUEST
So it's important to get the right intervention in and to know what that's doing to the neuroplasticity.
Valerie PomeroyGUEST
So my research has been focused very much on using movement science to investigate the quality of movement and how we can change that with functional activities, trials of functional strength training for the upper limb, so the arm and hand movement, and the lower limb, the leg and the foot, have been influential, I hope.
Richard A. WatsonGUEST
But the work that I did with Chris Buckley at Sussex University shows that no, actually that's a really general principle that applies to any network where the connections give way under stress.
Richard A. WatsonGUEST
So Hebbian learning neurons that fire together, wire together is the same as saying, if the connection between these two neurons is under stress, change the connection in a way that relieves that stress.
Richard A. WatsonGUEST
So if they were firing at the same time, increasing the strength of the connection just makes it easier for them to fire at the same time.
Richard A. WatsonGUEST
If they were firing at different times, making a negative connection between the genome makes it easier for them to fire at different times.
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