Plastic models; plastic brains

It has taken me a few weeks to get going on assembling the model. The kind of glue now used is an interesting product, but cannot be found at Target or even Toys R Us. I finally made it to Hobby Town, where the nice man showed me which was the bottle of Styrene glue to get. Even now I am going slowly with the thin plastic. I have glued together the fronts to the backs of the larger bones. I haven't yet tried to insert the pins that will attach the bones to each other.

Funny to be working with a plastic model as I am currently reading about neuro-plasticity in The Brain that Changes Itself by Norman Dodge. Now we are talking about a power of imagination, focus, and variety!

My interest in plasticity has come out of a lifelong interest in having better posture. A couple of years back, I was reading how musicians used the Alexander technique for musicians to gain ease of movement through efficient action: "What appears as lazy or stiff posture is really a lack of central coordination: some muscles work too hard while others barely engage. Alexander Technique lessons will change how you perceive and experience your body's support system.You see that it functions not in segments but as a whole" (http://www.alexandertechnique.com/articles/posture/). 

"The brain is also capable of changing these areas or developing new neural pathways, and this amazing capacity is known as plasticity" (http://markjosefsberg.com/alexander-technique/alexander-technique-think-outside-the-box). Similarly, sticking to ingrained habits reenforces them. So, plasticity refers to our ability to set and to alter our thought and action routines. Using the least amount of energy necessary for our thoughts and actions is the definition of efficiency.