Re: Transactions: good or bad?

"Bob Badour" <bbadour_at_golden.net> wrote in message news:<BV3Ia.128$Yh2.18554985_at_mantis.golden.net>...

> Actually, the tools are not powerful at all, but the power of the available
> tools is growing exponentially. Before too long (a decade or two?), the
> tools will be very powerful indeed.
> >, but the real problem is not the
> > behaviour of a single neuron, which is not extremely complex
>
> The simplest of cells is extremely complex. At a molecular level, the
> complexity of the interactions far exceed our current ability to understand
> by many orders of magnitude. Ask anyone involved with biology and
> particularly with molecular biology if you doubt me.

I don't doubt you, but we are talking about different things. A neuron view as a cell is extremelly complex, but its behavior as a signaling device probably is not.

Although it seems you are right when you say it is not still very well known.

I have found curious page:

"The morphologically defined neuron is not the fundamental element of the neural system from a functional perspective."

http://www.4colorvision.com/neuron/index.html

Alfredo Received on Thu Jun 19 2003 - 11:42:23 CDT