Subject: Can a person reprogram their neural computation unit?

Assume
Mind[equ]Brain
Thought[equ]nerve-synapse voltage current pattern.
_Suppose_ every action and every thought you ever do resets the various
synaptic coupling strengths along the circuit pathway. (Feedback.)
Suppose you could physically wither away with thought, and the converse.

I have been looking for information on this for months--bookstores,
libraries, Alta-Vista searching, etc.  If one of the mad scientists 
could help me, I would greatly appreciate it.  I think this is a great
idea, but maybe it is not a scientific question--it is non-falseafiable.

Is there neurophysical feedback in the human nervous system?  

If you take a group of new born laboratory rats and separate them
at birth into two groups and stimulate one and refrain from 
stimulating the other group, the stimulated group is more
intelligent.  I assert social scientists say this is generally
true about humans as well.  If you don't pay attention to a
newborn baby, it does not develop in a healthy manner.  This is
one of the tragedies about teen motherhood in the underclass; 
those children are quite profoundly disadvantaged.

NOW, DOES THIS PROCESS CONTINUE OUR ENTIRE LIVES?  [emphasis mine]
In the field
of Artificial Intelligence, there is something which I believe
is called Dynamic Network Programming (This is not my field, but
this is obscure enough that I can provide a citation for it if
you wish.)  In a dynamic network, the computer program continuously
reprograms itself every time it computes an output.  Every time,
it re examines the result in terms of its training set, and so
forth.  The program reprograms itself.  Does the human brain
do this?  I want to know more about this.

_If it happens_ the implications are truly mind boggling.
Consider that each time you run a red light, every time you curse
at your spouse, every time you do anything to create what Eastern
mystics refer to ineffably as bad kharma, YOU PUT A BUG IN YOUR
COMPUTER PROGRAM  [emphasis mine].  Take all the old people you know and divide them into two groups:

I.) healthy happy old people
II.) unhealthy bitter old people.

Take all the old people you know and divide them into two other
groups:

A.) old people who have spent their entire lives struggling
to live by the golden rule and the ten commandments.
B.) old people who haven't.

Cross correlate the four groups.  Pretty cool, eh?

Perhaps there is an evolutionary basis for conscience, morality,
etc.  Perhaps for millions of years people have absorbed the 
reality that if you are a good person, you are far more likely
to live a long healthy life.

The closest thing I have seen to a cogent description of this
subject is a book by an MD and a book by two psychologists.
Love Medicine and Miracles by Bernie Segal
Frogs into Princes by Richard Bandler and John Grinder.

I presume you agree with my assumptions-

Assume
Mind[equ]Brain
Thought[equ]nerve-synapse voltage current pattern.

I am a physicist.  I like hard data.  If you could point
me towards some I would devour it.

I could elaborate upon this for pages, but then it could get into
things like anecdotes about my absurd life, etc.

By the way, I just found MadSci.com the other day.  It is an
awesome site.

Re: Can a person reprogram their neural computation unit?