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>From: crb7q@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Cameron Randale Bass)
Subject: Re: Neo-dualism?
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In article <724@trwacs.fp.trw.com> erwin@trwacs.fp.trw.com (Harry Erwin) writes:
>On neodualism: Sir John Eccles suspects that the way the mind affects the
>brain is by modifying the probability of vesicle release in the synaptic
>bouton, where a quantum mechanical process is known to operate at the
>femtosecond level to limit release to 0 or 1 vesicle. The probability of
>release of one vesicle is on the order of 1/6 per calcium pulse.
[disavowal cheerfully deleted]

     The 'mind' is a random number generator?

                            dale bass

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C. R. Bass                                           crb7q@virginia.edu
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