EC Neurology

Many research workers have spent prolonged periods mapping connections between neurons in a wide variety of nervous systems [1-6]. The pathways of sensory inputs and motor outputs have been localised as have central processing areas e.g. in the spinal cord, brain and cerebellum of vertebrates, greatly enhancing our understanding of nervous function in health and disease. However, studies on neural connectivity do not tell us everything about the innermost workings of nervous systems.

To further complicate things, action potentials themselves have three functions within nervous systems: communication, modulation and computation [7], and are now believed to use using phase ternary, rather than binary computation [8,9]. The whole point is that nervous systems are likely to prove to be much more complex than circuit diagrams or hormonal and neurosecretory actions can predict, particularly as there is also accumulating evidence that brains may function as quantum phase computers [10], exhibiting quantum entanglement [11]. These are important concepts which will eventually have a bearing on our understanding of Neuroethology and the organization of animal behaviour.

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