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If the good lord had wanted us to interact with transistors based on mnemonics, not electrical currents, he'd have implemented our brains in mnemonics, not elec
by lostcolony 5y ago
If the good lord had wanted us to interact with transistors based on mnemonics, not electrical currents, he'd have implemented our brains in mnemonics, not electrical currents.
- akiselev 5y agoNitpick: voltage potentials and ion channels. There's not much actual current flowing.
- AstralStorm 5y agoNitpick over nitpick: synapses are not exactly electrical or ion current based, they have active transporters. If all electrical activity ceases, does memory survive? (Answer is very likely yes given cryonic experiments. Brain is protein, ion currents have tendency to auto fire on defrost.)
- akiselev 5y agoAh, I was under the mistaken assumption that ion transport was a subset of ion channels but I see now the latter is passive only.