Re: [agi] What Must a World Be That a Humanlike Intelligence May Develop In It?

[Ronald C. Blue]

It turns out that nerve cells require physical vibrations to work correctly.  
An odd discovery to say the least.  But movement of an electrostatic charge in 
a standing electromagnetic polarization field may be useful for measuring the 
vibrations of odor molecules for the odor system.  Part of an odor molecule 
moves in an out of the pore of a nerve cell.  An odor signal then would be a 
summation of averages of the different parts being stored on a standing wave 
pattern of about 30 hertz.  You can duplicate any odor if you can get the same 
ratio of the small parts of the original molecule.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Nathan Cook 
  To: agi@v2.listbox.com 
  Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2009 4:27 PM
  Subject: Re: [agi] What Must a World Be That a Humanlike Intelligence May 
Develop In It?


  What about vibration? We have specialized mechanoreceptors to detect 
vibration (actually vibration and pressure - presumably there's processing to 
separate the two). It's vibration that lets us feel fine texture, via the 
stick-slip friction between fingertip and object.

  On a related note, even a very fine powder of very low friction feels 
different to water - how can you capture the sensation of water using beads and 
blocks of a reasonably large size?

  -- 
  Nathan Cook


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