Tag: neurons
In Its Design, the Body’s Thermostat Resembles Human Technology
The existence of thermostatic control of our body temperature is not at all surprising supposing life to be the product of a purposeful engineer.
Fruit Fly Eyes and More Surprises for Darwin
Don’t swat too quickly! There’s more awe in that little fly than might be apparent from a cursory glance.
Brain as a Quantum System: Theory Gets New Traction
Hameroff and Penrose’s Orch Or Theory sees consciousness as the outcome of a quantum collapse of a wave function.
New Findings About Our Mysterious “Second Brain”
It wasn’t long ago that researchers were hardly aware of the way the digestive system functions as a second brain. The big focus was neurons.
Biochemist Begins to Sense Limits of Materialism
I was somewhat taken aback. What does he mean by the “general nature of life” yielded to scientific analysis?