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>From: weemba@libra.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
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Subject: Re: Eccles on neural quantum effects
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Date: 20 Dec 91 15:13:17 GMT
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In-reply-to: G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly)

In article <2201@ucl-cs.uucp>, G.Joly@cs (Gordon Joly) writes:
>>> When something is small enough, quantum effects are guaranteed to
>>> be there.  Eccles points out that neurotransmitter vesicles and
>>> synaptic gaps are indeed small enough.

>Wrong. QM (well de Broglie) says that golf ball travelling at 30 mph
>has a wavelength.

If you don't mind, I'm speaking colloquial English.  

When I say "quantum effects are guaranteed to be there", this means
that classical models are going to have detectable mispredictions.

This does not happen with 30 mph golf balls.  (This does happen with
SQUIDs and cryogenic Weber bars.)
-- 
-Matthew P Wiener (weemba@libra.wistar.upenn.edu)


