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  Researchers create computer model that simulates anesthesia's impact on brain Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-08 14:20 -0500
    Re: Researchers create computer model that simulates anesthesia's impact on brain jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-09-08 19:45 +0000
      Re: Researchers create computer model that simulates anesthesia's impact on brain Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-08 15:13 -0500
        Re: Ass hat's spam jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-09-08 20:30 +0000
          Re: Ass hat's spam Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-08 15:35 -0500
            Re: Ass hat's spam jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-09-08 21:00 +0000
              Re: Researchers create computer model that simulates anesthesia's impact,on brain Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-08 16:17 -0500
                Re: Ass hat repastes spam and avoids question jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-09-08 21:44 +0000

#519792 — Researchers create computer model that simulates anesthesia's impact on brain

Researchers create computer model that simulates anesthesia's impact on 
brain
> http://phys.org/news/2015-09-simulates-anesthesia-impact-brain.html



> (Phys.org)—A team of researchers working at the University of
> Pittsburgh has created a computer model that simulates in some
> interesting ways, the process that occurs when anesthesia causes the
> human brain to essentially shut down. In their paper published in
> Physical Review Letters, the team describes how they built their
> model, which aspects of consciousness it represents and the ways in
> which it mimics human anatomy.

> Despite huge advances in the development of drugs used to anesthetize
> people during surgery, scientists still do not know how or why it
> works, which is irksome because if it could be explained than we
> might make some inroads towards understanding the nature of
> consciousness itself. In this new effort, the team in Pittsburgh
> created a computer model framed around nodes that are meant to mimic
> neurons or whole parts of the brain and the signals that are sent
> between them. The model is based on an idea that suggests sudden
> changes in consciousness brought about by the introduction of an
> anesthetic are caused by a global change in the network responsible
> for carrying signals through a neural network—a sudden restoration of
> the network would then correspond to the sudden awakening that occurs
> with patients coming to after surgery.

> To mimic such a situation the researchers built a network of nodes
> with signaling between them similar to the gamma and beta waves that
> can be recorded during normal human consciousness, the alpha waves
> that occur during times of relaxation and the delta waves that are
> the hallmark of deep sleep. To allow for such globalized changes, the
> researches assigned a variable (p) to each node that represented
> transmission flow—changing the value changed the ability of an
> individual node to read, react and transmit information that came to
> it. But, because it was a global variable, the researchers were able
> to impact the way information was processed and retransmitted for all
> of the nodes at the same time.


   IIRC, the jimp got all upset when I previously posted about this
   research. But then again he gets upset at a lot of postings.



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#519802

Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Researchers create computer model that simulates anesthesia's impact on 
> brain

So how is this cut and paste about computer modeling and biochemistry
physic, ass hat?



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#519806

On 9/8/15 2:45 PM, Nasty name-caller jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:

> So how is this cut and paste about computer modeling and biochemistry
> physic, ass hat?
>

   Read it and find out, jimp.

   Researchers create computer model that simulates anesthesia's impact
   on brain
 > http://phys.org/news/2015-09-simulates-anesthesia-impact-brain.html

 > (Phys.org)—A team of researchers working at the University of
 > Pittsburgh has created a computer model that simulates in some
 > interesting ways, the process that occurs when anesthesia causes the
 > human brain to essentially shut down. In their paper published in
 > Physical Review Letters, the team describes how they built their
 > model, which aspects of consciousness it represents and the ways in
 > which it mimics human anatomy.

 > Despite huge advances in the development of drugs used to anesthetize
 > people during surgery, scientists still do not know how or why it
 > works, which is irksome because if it could be explained than we
 > might make some inroads towards understanding the nature of
 > consciousness itself. In this new effort, the team in Pittsburgh
 > created a computer model framed around nodes that are meant to mimic
 > neurons or whole parts of the brain and the signals that are sent
 > between them. The model is based on an idea that suggests sudden
 > changes in consciousness brought about by the introduction of an
 > anesthetic are caused by a global change in the network responsible
 > for carrying signals through a neural network—a sudden restoration of
 > the network would then correspond to the sudden awakening that occurs
 > with patients coming to after surgery.

 > To mimic such a situation the researchers built a network of nodes
 > with signaling between them similar to the gamma and beta waves that
 > can be recorded during normal human consciousness, the alpha waves
 > that occur during times of relaxation and the delta waves that are
 > the hallmark of deep sleep. To allow for such globalized changes, the
 > researches assigned a variable (p) to each node that represented
 > transmission flow—changing the value changed the ability of an
 > individual node to read, react and transmit information that came to
 > it. But, because it was a global variable, the researchers were able
 > to impact the way information was processed and retransmitted for all
 > of the nodes at the same time.


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#519812 — Re: Ass hat's spam

Shit head spammer <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/8/15 2:45 PM, Nasty name-caller jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
> 
>> So how is this cut and paste about computer modeling and biochemistry
>> physic, ass hat?
>>
> 
>   Read it and find out, jimp.

No, ass hat, explain what your cut and paste about computer modeling and
biochemistry has to do with physics, and I might.


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#519815 — Re: Ass hat's spam

On 9/8/15 3:30 PM, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
> Shit head spammer <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 9/8/15 2:45 PM, Nasty name-caller jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
>>
>>> So how is this cut and paste about computer modeling and biochemistry
>>> physic, ass hat?
>>>
>>
>>    Read it and find out, jimp.
>
> No, ass hat, explain what your cut and paste about computer modeling and
> biochemistry has to do with physics, and I might.
>
>

   Your loss, jimp.


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#519824 — Re: Ass hat's spam

Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/8/15 3:30 PM, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
>> Shit head spammer <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 9/8/15 2:45 PM, Nasty name-caller jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> So how is this cut and paste about computer modeling and biochemistry
>>>> physic, ass hat?
>>>>
>>>
>>>    Read it and find out, jimp.
>>
>> No, ass hat, explain what your cut and paste about computer modeling and
>> biochemistry has to do with physics, and I might.
>>
>>
> 
>   Your loss, jimp.
 
I guess not if you can not explain what your cut and paste about
computer modeling and biochemistry has to do with physics, spamming
ass hole.
 

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#519832 — Re: Researchers create computer model that simulates anesthesia's impact,on brain

On 9/8/15 4:00 PM, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
> I guess not if you can not explain what your cut and paste about
> computer modeling and biochemistry has to do with physics, spamming
> ass hole.


   The jimp *really needs to attend those anger management* classes.
   See: Rancho Cucamonga Anger Management Classes
> http://www.yellowpages.com/rancho-cucamonga-ca/anger-management-classes


   Researchers create computer model that simulates anesthesia's impact
   on brain
 > http://phys.org/news/2015-09-simulates-anesthesia-impact-brain.html



 > (Phys.org)—A team of researchers working at the University of
 > Pittsburgh has created a computer model that simulates in some
 > interesting ways, the process that occurs when anesthesia causes the
 > human brain to essentially shut down. In their paper published in
 > Physical Review Letters, the team describes how they built their
 > model, which aspects of consciousness it represents and the ways in
 > which it mimics human anatomy.

 > Despite huge advances in the development of drugs used to anesthetize
 > people during surgery, scientists still do not know how or why it
 > works, which is irksome because if it could be explained than we
 > might make some inroads towards understanding the nature of
 > consciousness itself. In this new effort, the team in Pittsburgh
 > created a computer model framed around nodes that are meant to mimic
 > neurons or whole parts of the brain and the signals that are sent
 > between them. The model is based on an idea that suggests sudden
 > changes in consciousness brought about by the introduction of an
 > anesthetic are caused by a global change in the network responsible
 > for carrying signals through a neural network—a sudden restoration of
 > the network would then correspond to the sudden awakening that occurs
 > with patients coming to after surgery.

 > To mimic such a situation the researchers built a network of nodes
 > with signaling between them similar to the gamma and beta waves that
 > can be recorded during normal human consciousness, the alpha waves
 > that occur during times of relaxation and the delta waves that are
 > the hallmark of deep sleep. To allow for such globalized changes, the
 > researches assigned a variable (p) to each node that represented
 > transmission flow—changing the value changed the ability of an
 > individual node to read, react and transmit information that came to
 > it. But, because it was a global variable, the researchers were able
 > to impact the way information was processed and retransmitted for all
 > of the nodes at the same time.

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#519843 — Re: Ass hat repastes spam and avoids question

Spamming Asshole <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/8/15 4:00 PM, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
>> I guess not if you can not explain what your cut and paste about
>> computer modeling and biochemistry has to do with physics, spamming
>> ass hole.
> 
> 
>   The jimp *really needs

The ass hat spamming piece of shit really needs to learn how to read.

Cut and pasting the same off topic crap back in is not explaining what
the off topic cut and paste about computer modeling and biochemistry
has to do with physics.


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