On Dec 18, 2007 7:57 AM, Pat Hayes <phayes@xxxxxxx> wrote:  (01)
> . Even if one were given a complete
> (dead) mammalian brain, there is no conceivable
> way to reconstruct all the neural connections in
> it, since the total cross-section of a neuron's
> end branchings greatly exceeds that of its axon,
> and these neurons are tightly packed in the
> cortex. Any way to 'take it apart' to find all
> the neurons, therefore, would of necessity
> involve breaking the connections which hold them
> together. Put another way: its impossible to
> assemble (or disassemble) a brain; it has to be
> grown.  (02) 
This is precisely why I think the brain should be studied as a whole, and
not in its puree or minced form.
 Thats the only way the neural paths (folk. 'brainwave') can be observed,  (03)
I hate to think like Frankenstein , but I bet you can induce some
level of passive activity in a coma brain by passing some tiny
frequencies. (not ac/dc I guess)
I ll have to remember to do that experiment next time I come across a coma  (04)
<grin>  (05)
PDM  (06)
>
>  (07) 
-- 
Paola Di Maio
School of IT
www.mfu.ac.th
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