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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Wtf is BoingBoing.net lmao

[–] yesman 5 points 1 month ago

I had an anatomy instructor who insisted that neural activity was a purely chemical process and that the electromagnetic stuff was just a byproduct that got all the attention because it was easy to detect. His central argument was that nerve transmission speeds are no faster than 150m/s which is somewhat slower than the speed of light you'd expect if neurons were little wires transmitting signals.