Until a few years ago, I always understood cavities as someTHING you can get on your teeth rather then an actual cavity/hole forming on your teeth. So how do I go from knowing a cavity as a word or object to understanding it as what it is, a cavity in my teeth. Is this simply caused by my stupid brain making a new physical connection between neurons or something else perhaps?
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Basically- Yes.
Or rather, more of the things you know get connected to each other (and the “knowing things” is the connected neurons nets you mentioned).
So at one point the word “cavity” got connected with you hearing an explanation or seeing pictures of it forming or you experiencing and feeling an operation at the dentists or someoen telling you about it and now whenever you hear the word “cavity” those networks in your brain also fire up, giving you the “knowledge” of what it means.
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