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Article #710Re: Turtles all the way down?
From: HARRY R. ERWIN
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 12:34
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 12:34
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Stephen David Wray (swra01@cs.aukuni.ac.nz) wrote: : > Turtles all the way down? : Yes -- and it's turtles all the way up too :) : (can anyone tell me where I got this quote from... : I'd like to be able to give a reference.) Terry Pratchett's novels are one source. I suspect this is a scientific urban legend. Biochemically and structurally, of course, it ->is<- turtles all the way down--there is very little random about cellular structure and dynamics at any level. The question, though, is whether the information transfer/processing continues down past the synaptic level. Given the need to coordinate vesicle production in the soma with vesicle usage in the synapses (for both the dendrites and axon), I suspect there is at least 'housekeeping' interaction. -- Harry Erwin Internet: herwin@gmu.edu Just a dumb graduate student working on Katchalsky network models.... (And if you believe that, I have a ranch in California to sell you.)
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