Form: Short Note

MORE ON THE ECONOMICS OF NEURONS

by Pat Ryan

Neurons don’t have a complete nucleus. Evolution has determined that letting neurons go through mitosis is a terrible idea and when you think about it, that makes sense.

If I can just conjure up a huge amount of neurons to process all of the information the universe can generate, I will quickly run myself out of glucose and oxygen to the point of death.

So… any organism that went down the road of mitosis scale died for those reasons and only neurons that were denied access to mitosis persisted.

That means a fundamental disconnect between genetic cognition and neural cognition: Genetics operates on exponential scales to match inputs, but neurons operate by intentionally limiting inputs. You just can’t see every photon a light bulb generates or you’re going to literally die very quickly.

Therefore, what you see about reality is the direct byproduct of this lack of scale-driven neural mitosis. This is the root mechanism responsible for “awareness” and is the core part of all evolution of intelligence.

The alternative is a slime mold, which DOES go through mitosis and operates somewhat like a colony of neurons.. but it cannot get beyond that state because there is no pressure to manage established connections when you can just always grow outward to solve your problems.

Locationists can suck it! Entropy is the only way!

Yanny vs Laurel

Some of us process more cycles per second and hear yanny, and some of us process fewer cycles per second and hear laurel. At lower speeds we hear yanny, and at higher speeds laurel. Some of us hear higher frequencies and some lower. Some of us sample more frequently than others.

I’m sure someone will come along and explain it in detail. I can think of three or maybe four different reasons we process the frequency differently, some of which are resonance others of which are sampling rates. Most likely answer so far is that some of us cognitively bias the upper spectrum and therefore yanny, and some the lower, and therefore laurel.

But it’s evidence we don’t experience time the same way either. There is a lot of time in my world.

I hear Yanny, unless I pay it at high speed (+30%) and then the reverse.

I also see a gold and white dress not a blue dress.

I can’t digest dairy and certain greens.

And I can’t arch my tongue.

I have 0- blood type.

I suspect that means I have old genes.