From: J. R. Molloy (jr@shasta.com)
Date: Sat Aug 26 2000 - 14:02:20 MDT
Brent Allsop wrote,
> The most fascinating thing to me is this terse comment:
>
> > The group's proposal is to create a tiny device that would emit
> > light to stimulate brain cells and record light from brain cells,
> > analogous to a camera.
>
The device would need to be "tiny" indeed, since the microtubules which connect
brain cells are only wide enough to conduct a single photon.
> Wooow, do brain neurons produce light?
Yes, if you consider a single photon to constitute light.
>And are they sensative
> to real light?
That's what the researchers intend to determine.
--J. R.
"Something beckons within the reach of each of us
to save heroic genius. Find it, and do it.
For as goes heroic genius, so goes humankind."
--Alligator Grundy, _Analects of Atman_
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