The Miraculous Mind (with Paul Bloom)
New Books in Neuroscience
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The Role of Neurotransmitters in Neural Computing
The idea is, you know, forget about conscience and we get all ass up. The role of the neurotransmitters in these cases is either to sort of facilitate connections or make it harder for the connection to work. They're excitatory and inhibitory. And they do their things in all sorts of chemical ways - sometimes like a paste that covers over the receptor of one neuron so it can't get any more information. Sometimes it's like a little scrubber, it scrubs away the other neurotransmitters to open up the channel.
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