K C Cheng <kccheng at postoffice.idirect.com> wrote:
> Not by too much. If we see how action potentials are the only stimuli
> coming in to give rise to various sensations, we must question what are
> in those AP to distinguish one from another stimulus and therefore one
> sensation(colours, or sound pitches, etc.) from another, and one
> corresponding resulting memory from another. What can be in the same
> type of action potentials to differentiate each specific stimuls from
> others?
Are you disregarding the "time code" (temporal pattern of signals), the
"population code" (the activation/inhibition of various neurons
influencing each other) and also the complex, ongoing modulation of
nearly all membrane properties and second messenger systems of neurons?
If you are disregarding virtually everything that consists the neural
signal code except for the bare action potentials as isolated,
non-interdependent phenomena, then I can more easily understand that you
seemingly have discarded all modern neuroscience and created your own
introspective mysticism.
Dag Stenberg
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