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Tue 23 Mar, 2010 08:56 pm
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Firing on all neurons: Where consciousness comes from
22 March 2010 by Anil Ananthaswamy
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STEVEN LAUREYS will always remember the 21-year-old woman who had had a stroke. She had been taken to a hospital in Liège, Belgium, where her condition worsened rapidly. She soon lost all motor movement, even the ability to open her eyes. Her prognosis looked bleak, so her doctors turned to Laureys, a neurologist, for a final opinion before turning off her ventilator.
There is an expression in the English language which refers to an internal combustion engine which is functioning properly, and that expression is "firing on all cylinders." The author here has adapted that expression to the structure of the brain, to say that a brain which is functioning properly is "firing on all neurons."
@Setanta,
So, it means that to make all neurons in the brain to work in full power?
@oristarA,
Quote:make all neurons in the brain to work in full power
make all brain neurons work at full power
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