Chemistry of Communications

Discussion in 'Chemistry' started by Bishadi, Dec 3, 2008.

  1. Bishadi Banned Banned

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    Since it is shared that chemical potentials are what convey when cells interrelate, then what is talking between people?
     
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  3. Read-Only Valued Senior Member

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    A rather simple and silly question, is it not?

    First off, the initial statement is incorrect/incomplete - it's electro-chemical activity.

    Thus the answer to the question is that electro-chemical activity in one person results in speech which is heard by a second person and, thereby, causes electro-chemical activity in the brain of the second individual.
     
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  5. Bishadi Banned Banned

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    Silly in what fashion?

    If 2 cells are said to communicate by chemicals exchanging, physically, then what chemical is exchanging between 2 people talking?

    No one asked what happens before and after, what was asked is what is conveying between the 2.

    What is the 'chemistry of communications?'
     
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    Do you actually NOT understand what sound/voice is? That's precisely what is "conveying" information between the two while talking.

    And I see absolutely no point in going into all the various electro-chemical 'happenings' in forming and receiving speech (along with all the processing involved). What good would all that discussion do?
     
  8. Fraggle Rocker Staff Member

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    Since different animals have different ways of communicating, it's important to identify the salient characteristic of human communication that differentiates it from other species. Humans communicate using sound waves.

    This is not unique and in fact it's rather common among warm-blooded air-breathing animals, although none of the other species have anywhere near the bandwidth we use, with the possible exception of the cetaceans, whose communications have so far defied our analyses. And of course the gorillas and chimpanzees who have learned ASL, and therefore have a communication of hand signals with a vocabulary of more than 1000 words.

    Other animals communicate by visual signals: Bees perform an elaborate dance to show each other where the nectar-bearing flowers are, and some species display colors for various reasons. And many animals communicate via pheromones; chemicals they exude into the air or water that others have receptors to sense, basically a sense of "smell." Dogs trade a fair number of signals by smells.

    It's widely hypothesized that humans can sense pheromones, but not consciously... that we really do emit chemicals when we have certain feelings like fear, and others unconsciously sense them through olfactory receptors. The hypothesis continues that dogs--with their far more powerful sense of smell--can smell our pheromones too, only consciously, and that's why they seem so able to read our moods.
     
  9. Bishadi Banned Banned

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    fair post

    now notice that even in chemical pheromones, the mass is not the importance but the energy upon the structure

    ie... notice a sound wave

    or even notice the cycles of metabolisms; then energy upon the structure is what is being consumed and we poop out the remaining.

    The point of the post was to represent that when cells communicate such as neurons, the exchange is the resonant potential tranversing mass that is conveying. (see gibbs energy)
     
  10. Bishadi Banned Banned

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    it seems what forums are good for is discussions

    As for sound waves...... when you think you have all the electricl potential calculated then you can try an convey what is occuring chemically speaking of course
     

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