01/08/2022
“So on the one hand, you had a theory which from the conceptual standpoint was profoundly puzzling. But from the practical standpoint was vastly more successful than anything we had ever seen before.
This is the kind of situation that produces the tension that all of the investigations/foundations of quantum mechanics are feeding off of since then. Cos on the one hand, this is an acutely paradoxical, puzzling, conceptually confusing theory.
On the other hand, we have no option along the lines of throwing it out or neglecting it because it is the most powerful, PROVEN tool for predicting the behaviors of physical systems that we have EVER had in our hands.”
General Anesthesia is a great example of how something can be perplexing, yet, still used everyday. Did you know they still don’t know HOW general anesthesia works? They just know that it does, so they use it. That’s why some people still feel pain and the anesthesia doesn’t work, they’re not in control of HOW it works. They cross their fingers and hope for the best that your nervous system has the proper response lol. Not so comforting all of a sudden, ey? 😆
“But precisely how anesthetics inhibit synaptic neurotransmission is not yet fully understood. It is clear, however, that volatile anesthetics, which are more soluble in lipids than in water, primarily affect the function of ion channel and neurotransmitter receptor proteins in the membranes of nerve cells, which are lipid environments. ..It affects the function of many proteins in nerve cell membranes, making it challenging to ascertain which of them are the key mediators of anesthetic action.”
**change is the ONLY constant. Even science changes ::gasp!:: nothing is free from the grip of change. Be careful not to turn science into the new religion where now we can’t ask questions about something that, in its very nature, IS change. “Questioning science is how you do science.” 🙏🏽🤓🙇🏽♀️