The PATH is made ready before the JOURNEY is made.: I figured
out a link between 'uncertainty principal" and the "all or none"
law in the the brain. In quantum physics, an electron (for
example) has the potential to be in a number of places, but it
is "more likely" to be in some places rather than others. In the
end, it does choose a path. or better still: LIGHTNING: It finds
a path from A to B - but you can't predict exactly how it will
get there. Now, the brain part: In the brain, before a neuron
fires, its "likely paths" are depolarized - a SPACE is opened up
for it to activate. THEN the neuron fires, choosing, as it were,
a way to get where it needs to go. An analogy, from "The Wave
Watcher's Companion" is: "This is a little like a person
becoming excited, and thereby more likely to start shouting."
Or, I think of it as the smart way to move heavy furniture:
Clear out a path BEFORE you start lifting the furniture. Get the
chairs out of the way, open all doors, make sure the path is
wide enough. You don't NEED all that space, but you have to make
it as easy as possible to DO IT RIGHT. This is a feature built
in to nature. and I find this quiet awesome. = The awesomeness
for me is that I've been skeptical of the whole, 'can't measure
an electorn's position and direction at the same time" without
disturbing it. See, the POTENTIAL paths, locations, etc are
setup AHEAD of time. The fact that measuring in some way
disturbs things, while cool, it's simply one 'particle' bouncing
off another, affecting it. BUT the fact that there is ALREADY a
path for it to "make that choice from' is cool. the path is made
ready before the journey is made... == Unlock all the doors of a
house where you think your guests mght need to go into. YOU
DON'T KNOW ahead of time what your guests will do, so you get
ready for whatever possibilities may arise. the guests choose
their own paths. YET by keeping some doors locked (the paths
they CAN'T go in) you have set up ACTION POTENTIAL. == Now I
wonder if lightning does the same thing - sets up a 'potential
path' (defining the area it MIGHT travel in) BEFORE the bolt
strikes? I bet it does.... almost a 'one two' punch: first the
scout goes out to see what's ahead, clearing a path if
necessary, before the team travels through == Got it: It must be
like the "Advance wave' just before a plane breaks the sound
barrier - all the waves compressing in front of each other
BEFORE the plane breaks through. the Action Potential iis the
advance wave -- but there's no guarantee that the plane will
break through... just like how the ENTIRETY of the path cleared
befor the neuron firing will get used; Either a particular bit
gets used, or it doesn't ("all or none"). Man, I wish I could
draw - i can picture how it works. Love capturing a new concept
/ a new connection i hadn't thought of before. Feb 14, 2012
