Page 146 - Spirit and Mind. Vol 1

Nicolai Levashov. Spirit and mind. Vol.1

Any external stimulus of the nerve endings on the human body is transformed
inside the neurons into an electrochemical signal. Only ions travel along the nerves
in one or the other direction. The question then arises — how does the redistribution
of ions along the neuronal axons — triggered by outside stimuli — create an imprint
of the signal in our brain and memory?

Let us try to understand this fascinating phenomenon of living nature.
Within the body of a neuron, the ionic picture changes quantitatively and
qualitatively under the impact of an external signal. If we consider the state of an
unstimulated neuron as representing zero, we find that it differs qualitatively from

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