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Chaos, Covid, & Climate Change with Professor Tim Palmer (#267)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

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Is the Transition Transmission of Electrical Energy Susceptible to Noise in the Brain?

We've developed these incredibly slender neurons with very small diameters, 0.1 microns or whatever. And as a result of that, we've managed to cram 80 odd billion neurons into our brain. So when you calculate how much energy there is per neuron, I mean, it's just a microscopic amount. Is it possible that the transition transmission rather of electrical energy along axons is actually susceptible to noise? The evidence is for these very slender neurons that are in the human brain, they are susceptible to noise. Okay. So is that a bad thing or a good thing? And in the book, I try to argue it's a good thing. It's probably what's made us

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