Little Pointless Questions

[ríomhaire]

Little, insignificant and pointless questions often pop into my head. What about you? Here's a thread where you can share them and maybe even get an answer. Today's:
I know that thoughts are basically electrical signals in the brain, so if our bodies had a better conducter than what's currently in our heads, would we think faster?

 

[15357]

I think yes, but then the brain fluid in our body may need changing.

 

[kirovman]

I usually get these kind of thoughts when I'm hungover, they buzz around my head, and I try to shoo them away with a newspaper.

 

[Sam]

What is positive / negative charge? What is responsible for it?

 

[Jintor]

My current little thoughts are WTF IS SCREWING WITH MY STUPID HEADPHONES.

GRAH.

 

[Beerdude26]

I know that thoughts are basically electrical signals in the brain, so if our bodies had a better conducter than what's currently in our heads, would we think faster?

Our cells will probably have to be able to cope with that strain. I think (been two years since I learned this ) that some cells can't go above 80m/s in terms of letting signals through.

 

[kirovman]

Anyway, the speed of the signal isn't dependent on the electrical impulses (which are fast), it's the speed of the chemical reactions in the nerve cells.

Who knows, maybe I just made that up.

 

[Beerdude26]

Anyway, the speed of the signal isn't dependent on the electrical impulses (which are fast), it's the speed of the chemical reactions in the nerve cells.

Who knows, maybe I just made that up.

That's true aswell. Nerve cells interact chemically and electrically.