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Anonymous Wed Dec 21 08:57:03 2011 No.4170302 [Reply] [Original]

do braincells communicate at light speed?

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 21 08:58:03 2011 No.4170304 no

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 21 09:02:35 2011 No.4170313 >>4170304 how do they communicate

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 21 09:03:35 2011 No.4170315 >>4170313 magnets

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 21 09:05:51 2011 No.4170318 the fastest nerve signals travel at speeds that exceed 100 meters per second. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nervous_system#Function

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 21 09:08:23 2011 No.4170328 >>4170313 Via chemical, electrical, hormonal systems. ,

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 21 09:18:26 2011 No.4170350 >>4170302 neurons' aka "brain cells" communication speed varies. It can go utp 120 meters per second or slow as 5 meters per second.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 21 11:03:43 2011 No.4170564 >>4170318 My book says i agree Wow dude, imagine your braincells could communicate at light of speed... well is it possible somehow to increase the speed? May in the future? Does anybody know something about that?

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 21 11:06:07 2011 No.4170571 Sensory information couldn't approach the speed of light in a vacuum because the signals have to travel through organic material, not empty space.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 21 13:07:23 2011 No.4170888 synapses also slow down communication

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 21 13:13:03 2011 No.4170913 >>4170302 No, and I can prove it to you using a neuro-visual effect I discovered earlier this year.

>>	valjean !!4SOyPF0IuOv Wed Dec 21 13:15:18 2011 No.4170934 >>4170571 this. >>4170564 I'm sure it could be marginally increased, but that increase would be a tiny fraction of c.

Anonymous Wed Dec 21 13:18:43 2011 No.4170946

>mfw brain cells communicate like electric signals
>implying we could replicate the brain with complex enough circuitry
>implying there isn't a huge amount of quantum mechanical interaction going on that creates consciousness
>implying a huge amount of 'communication' across the brain isn't accomplished through quantum entanglement and the like

ITT - biologists

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Wed Dec 21 13:20:00 2011 No.4170962 File: 265 KB, 938x1200, penrose.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4170946 >quantum mechanical interaction going on that creates consciousness

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 21 13:22:06 2011 No.4170968 No, action potentials propogate at about 150mph, the speed of a slow plane. Fortunatly, they dont have to go far.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 21 13:23:16 2011 No.4170976 Light speed communication between braincells would be amazing.

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