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>From: G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly)
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Subject: Eccles on neural quantum effects
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Matthew P Wiener writes:
 > In article <44970@mimsy.umd.edu>, harwood@umiacs (David Harwood) writes:
 > >	It has also been very recently discovered that sub-vocal internal
 > >"speech" in fact involves motor neurons which are active in ordinary speech
 > >production, but somehow their "output" (to the mouth and vocal cords) is
 > >suppressed.
 > 
 > Sir John Eccles makes a similar point in his MINDWAVES article.  He
 > refers to experiments that measure blood flow for mental movement and
 > for actual movement.  The latter involved a greater region of activity.
 > 
 > Eccles reads this, and some other experiments, as support for his
 > dualist-interactionist view.  He cites with approval the quantum
 > view of mind in Henry Margenau THE MIRACLE OF EXISTENCE.
 > 
 > He also reiterates an earlier neural quantum connection that he made in
 > his FACING REALITY, this time with experimental evidence.  Specifically,
 > the synaptic unit of action is a vesicle of transmitter, of diamater
 > 40nm and mass 30ag.  The uncertainty principle lets him pin down its
 > position to about 3nm if the time spread is 1 ms, which are the correct
 > order of magnitude for action across the presynaptic membrane.
 > 
 > Eccles then refers to a study [JJB Jack, SJ Redman, K Wong JOURNAL OF
 > PHYSIOLOGY 321 pp65-96 (1981)] involving the emission of a single such
 > vescicle from a muscle afferent fibre to its motoneuron.  They found
 > that one vesicle emission was best described probabilistically.
 > -- 
 > -Matthew P Wiener (weemba@libra.wistar.upenn.edu)

Great! Super! I am looking forward to the next phase maybe:-

   "Superstring Theory Applied to Neurology - Mind on a Wire" 

Penrose (with his twistor theory) will be in the forefront of this
research thread.

:-)

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