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>From: minsky@media.mit.edu (Marvin Minsky)
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Subject: Re: Ignore QM and be happy
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Date: 25 Dec 91 06:14:55 GMT
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In article <61056@netnews.upenn.edu> weemba@libra.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener) writes:
>
>One _cannot_ imagine this as having to do with our own brains, except
>for the sake of nonsensical conclusions.  For at the picolevel, there
>is never such a notion as releasing neurotransmitter "at just the right
>times".  The work of Katz in the 50s on the probabilistic release of
>acetylcholine vesicles is textbook knowledge by now; I cited Eccles on
>how this accords with a quantum mechanical description.
>

I must have missed this.  Can you review how Eccles shows that QM
effects are important, say, as compared to thermal effects, for
anything so large as a vesicle?


