The Newspaper Shop -- Tuesday edition

[TankGirl]

Originally posted by walktalker
Consciousness Based on Wireless?
Human consciousness is actually wireless communication between the cells of your brain, according to a professor of molecular genetics at the University of Surrey in Great Britain. Pulling together research from neuroscience, psychology, physics and biology, Johnjoe McFadden has proposed a radical answer to questions that have vexed philosophers and scientists since Plato's time and, more recently, those on a quest for artificial intelligence: What is consciousness? How does the brain create intelligent thoughts? Do we have free will?
http://www.wired.com/news/technology...,52674,00.html

A most interesting topic even if the story scratched just the surface of it. Field phenomena might go a long way to explain the holistic nature of consciousness despite the huge complexity of the signaling going on between the billions of neurons. On the other hand the new approach makes modelling of the brain even more tricky: besides the signaling circuitry you would also have to take into account the geometrical shapes and mutual locations of the neuron groups and neural pathways.

And yes, it is great that your parents did not choose to kill you, WT!

- tg