Certain electrical properties of the slime mold

✍ Scribed by Burr, Harold Saxton

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1955
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 987 KB
• Volume: 129
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0022-104X
• DOI: 10.1002/jez.1401290207

✦ Synopsis

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'Lhe solution of the perennial problem of human relations is to be found rooted in an understanding of the nervous system, for behavior is the reaction of a living organism to the coordinated, correlated, and integrated stimuli resulting from changes in the physical and chemical environment. This is made possible by the structure and function of the organized nervous system. The energy required to make adjustment possible is, needless to say, derived from the incredibly complex chemical activity of protoplasm, but the direction in which that energy flows, and the way in which it is used, is a consequence of the pattern of organization of neural tissue. It is not enough, therefore, to know the details of the complex structures involved, but rather to have some over-all grasp and understanding of the way the nervous system works. Analysis of the units is of vital importance even down to the sub-microscopic level, but equally important is a grasp of the inter-relatednesses of all component parts. Moreover, since behavior is in part the result of the impact of one organism on another, no real picture of the forces which make man do what he does is possible without a complete lmomledge and understanding of the structure and function of the nervous system. Aided by grants from the Fluid Research F ~i d of tlie School o f Medicine, * I t is a pleasure to acknowledge tlie great help of Mr. Henry Stude, Jr., in and the Eugene Higgins Trust o f Yale University.

designing the bucking circuit.