Lifelong Learning

I am a huge proponent of lifelong learning. I think that each day, and its new experiences, provides an opportunity to learn more. 

I just read the most fascinating news about the ability to learn throughout one's lifetime despite factors that might suggest learning is no longer possible. 

If this interests you, please read this article. 

I am interested about what sort of "profound implications," as Dr. Berkinschetein says, there will be for neuroscience, medical care, and all those who are involved in making end-of-life decisions. Could these implications force us to better define life, and what it means to be "conscious," or will they drag us deeper down into our god-complexes, and further our illusions that being able to predict a patient's recovery or death equals actually having the power to grant life or death? 

I'm not sure how much press this small study will get, or how profound its implications will turn out to be, but I do know that it makes me feel foolish for grumbling about my exams and having to show what I have learned while patients in a vegetative state are fighting, in the only way they know how, to prove that they can learn, and are, indeed, not so vegetative after all.