PDM, (01)
If you had ever seen a human brain in situ or on a dissecting plate and
looked at a section of the amygdala under an electron microscope, I doubt
you would have your opinion that the brain "should be studied as a whole".
This is like studying an orange seed from the outside of an unpeeled orange
or deducing behavior of an electron by looking at a piece of wood, only more
limiting. (02)
>From the discussions I have seen posted, I cannot deduce your area of
expertise, but one of mine is medicine and neuroendocrinology, and I assure
you are incorrect in this instance. (03)
Cecil Lynch (04)
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On Dec 18, 2007 7:57 AM, Pat Hayes <phayes@xxxxxxx> wrote: (06)
> . Even if one were given a complete
> (dead) mammalian brain, there is no conceivable
> way to reconstruct all the neural connections in
> it, since the total cross-section of a neuron's
> end branchings greatly exceeds that of its axon,
> and these neurons are tightly packed in the
> cortex. Any way to 'take it apart' to find all
> the neurons, therefore, would of necessity
> involve breaking the connections which hold them
> together. Put another way: its impossible to
> assemble (or disassemble) a brain; it has to be
> grown. (07)
This is precisely why I think the brain should be studied as a whole, and
not in its puree or minced form.
Thats the only way the neural paths (folk. 'brainwave') can be observed, (08)
I hate to think like Frankenstein , but I bet you can induce some
level of passive activity in a coma brain by passing some tiny
frequencies. (not ac/dc I guess)
I ll have to remember to do that experiment next time I come across a coma (09)
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