Recent content by ketchup king

That's right, those forum rules I just read. Those are perfectly decent rules. Is there a good place for idle speculation about such things that you would recommend ?

So, ahem, after that, back to my original question, what about other forces - gravity, strong and weak force - any chance at all that they play any part (apart from the obvious one of bonding) in brain activity ? And biophotons, has the research got any further than a somewhat inconclusive...

Got to entertain yourself sometimes. Really though, its not the claim that its the most complicated thing we know of, but that exists. It's funny how people make these assertions. Example of something more complicated ? The human body inc. head ? A decapitated head with some vessels still...

That's one point of pedantry I don't mind. Some of the terrible things scientists say... Like - "the brain is the most complicated object in the universe". I just keep hearing this repeated by by every scientist who is running short of things to amaze the public with and it just makes me wince...

OK, but could that sort of growth factor stimulated growth be called communication ? The transmission of growth factor could, I suppose, be a communication that it's time to grow, but the growth itself ? I was thinking more like a neuron that tugs or beats on another neuron and so on -...

I could sense that lurking in the background. I'm not bothered about whether I'm straying from orthodoxy or not, I've got no scientific reputation to defend, no one is going to deny me funding or employment, I'm just curious, so don't worry about steering me to safe ground. Safe ground is always...

Hmmm, I'd much rather see "Neurons do not communicate with magentism, so far as we know yet.", because they were saying that neurons don't communicate with electrical fields, but of course it turns out they do. A bit like the once established fact that the brain does not regenerate it's cells...

I'll let you know, aye.

Thanks for the reply. OK there are charges moving around in the brain, so there should be magnetic fields even at the molecular level, but not so that it is involved in neuron-neuron communication in itself that has been found yet - that I can find. So, as it was recently found that...

Magnetic effects on the brain are well known, as are magnetic brain scans, but I'm having difficulty finding anything to say magnetism has a function within the brain. I can find electrical communication, but not magnetic. Am I missing something ? Folk, do say if so.