<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Yes, this is another article
reporting on the same work I posted here on the morning of Jan 6. “<a href="https://www-sciencealert-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.sciencealert.com/a-newly-discovered-signal-in-neurons-hints-at-the-power-of-the-human-brain/amp?usqp=mq331AQCKAE%3D&_js_v=0.1#referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From%20%251%24s&share=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencealert.com%2Fa-newly-discovered-signal-in-neurons-hints-at-the-power-of-the-human-brain" style="color:blue">Scientists
Uncover a Never-Before-Seen Type of Signal Occurring in The Human Brain</a>”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">As I was saying on the 6th, “It
looks to me like this new discovery</span> could be exactly describing neural logic with multiple inputs that could
react differently, based on the diverse physical qualities of the many inputs,
in the outer most layer of the cortex.”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I wouldn’t say that it “thinks”, but
it certainly could be an important part of computational binding of multiple
different physical pixel representations, and stuff.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">Saying a single neuron can “think”
would be like a </span><span style="font-size:16px">panpsychist</span><span style="font-size:12pt"> saying that physical elements are “proto-conscious”. My question to such would be, does a “proto
consciousness” have the same visual resolution and color depth as a full consciousness?</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 4:47 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:"ARS Maquette","Helvetica Neue",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Basically, the researchers figured out that the human brain can modulate the amplitude of electrical activity in order increase the longevity and efficacy of its signals. This, apparently, allows individual neurons to do more than just figure out if something is one thing or another, it allows them to perform an </span><a href="https://hackernoon.com/xor-the-magical-bit-wise-operator-24d3012ed821" rel="nofollow noopener" style="box-sizing:border-box;outline:none;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"ARS Maquette","Helvetica Neue",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(255,68,34)" target="_blank">XOR calculation</a><span style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:"ARS Maquette","Helvetica Neue",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">, something previously thought impossible for a single neuron in the human brain.</span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:"ARS Maquette","Helvetica Neue",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-size:16px"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">Here's the whole article: </font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="https://thenextweb.com/insights/2020/01/08/scientists-may-have-found-the-missing-link-between-brain-matter-and-consciousness/" target="_blank">https://thenextweb.com/insights/2020/01/08/scientists-may-have-found-the-missing-link-between-brain-matter-and-consciousness/</a><span style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-size:16px"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">bill w</div></div>
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