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On Sun, 18 Aug 2024 15:39:46 +1000, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
wrote:

>On 18/08/2024 11:16 am, john larkin wrote:
>> On Sat, 17 Aug 2024 17:54:38 +0100, Martin Brown
>> <'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 16/08/2024 23:16, john larkin wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 16 Aug 2024 21:01:06 +0100, Martin Brown
>>>> <'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> OTOH I was visiting my tame biochemist friend today and he is interested
>>>>> in it as he has always suspected that there was a lot more to myelin
>>>>> sheaths on nerves than they are usually given credit for. A QM mediated
>>>>> higher transmission efficiency of signals *might* just be plausible.
>>>>
>>>> My theory is that the electrical pulses we see in long nerves are just
>>>> chemical refreshes, not the data carriers themselves.
>>>
>>> That isn't any kind of scientific theory - it is too feeble even to be
>>> called a conjecture. Wild imagining is still far too polite. Crazy idea
>>> perhaps?
>> 
>> Consider the timing accuracy required to encode all the information
>> from your foot, given just the obvious electrical nerve pulses.
>> 
>> Now consider what happens to the relative pulse timings when you flex
>> your limbs and body, when sound and shock waves slam your nerves, when
>> your heart beats.
>> 
>> Too much jitter for simple pulse-time encoding.
>
>Who would imagine that it was simple? Design is all about getting the 
>result you want from the hardware you've got, and while our nervous 
>system isn't designed, only those random mutations which lead to a 
>tolerably functional system survived natural selection.


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