Comment by jrussino

It has been over a decade since I studied neurobiology, but from what I recall we do have at least some understanding of how synapses become "weighted". For example: long-term-potentiation, the idea that "neurons that fire together wire together" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_potentiation https://www.khanacademy.org/test-prep/mcat/behavior/learning...