kkollins at pop3.concentric.net wrote:
: Yeah, viral infection might result in "depression"-like symptoms, but
: "depression" is not the result of a viral infection because what's been
: referred to as "depression" is a fully-functional information-processing
: mechanism that's "engineered" right into "normal" nervous systems.
:: And =everything= that happens in the nervous system has "genetic" correlates.
Huh! Are you claiming that the only people who suffer from depression
are genetically predisposed to suffer from depression as a consequence
of some specific structure in the brain? What structure would that
be? Evidence, please.
: <snip, snip, snip>
: "molecular neuroscience" is a Fraud that, for the sake of "funding", has
: Forsaken those who Suffer-Greatly.
So you claim that it makes absolutely no difference what chemical
processes are going on inside of cells?
I find this really amazing. You talk about genetics and then turn
around and disparage molecular neuroscience. Don't you realize that
genes encode proteins? As far as I know, that's all that they do.
In fact, a very large number of genes encode proteins that are
specific to the nervous system. If you throw out the chemistry,
genetics becomes inexplicable. So why do you praise genetics and
denigrate molecular neuroscience? Could it be because your
underderstanding of the molecular processes is nonexistent?
Eric Johnson
