• MonkderZweite@feddit.ch
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    1 year ago

    No, nerves use cascades of ion potentials. Those are just triggered by touch or electricity.

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      1 year ago

      Ion potentials are electricity… That’s the same thing as a voltage measurement: a difference in ion charge between two areas. Open the gate and the charge diffuses. That’s a wire.

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        1 year ago

        And in nerves it’s ion pumps first shoving ions outside and if a trigger occurs, the gate opening, ions flooding in, opening the next gate and so fort. It’s not the same.