The Unified Theory of the Nervous System
and Behavior
Cognitive Philosophy /Brain Theory by Steven Michael Harris
The mathematical factors that add up to too much excitation are not just in the subtle advantage provided by the nature of how inhibitory chemical is an excessive amount of excitatory chemical leading to all excesses being inhibitory and moderated in order to provide the mathematical mechanisms behind the need for calculating balances (optimum ranges of any function or chemical release or behavior in avoidance of an algorithm that is designed with no top end in the pursuit of one end of the spectrum of some decision as it is encoded in the pleasure/pain dichotomy).
There is another factor that emerges from the activity of a lot of interconnected cells having great activity in close proximity in a nervous system, in partnership with the factors that lead to increased connectivity (new connections) between cells that are firing in synchronicity:
If a grouping of cells is very excited (perhaps “over-excited” individually or over-excited by more cells being affected or involved in that excitation activity or over-excited by firing in an excited pattern for too long a time for the optimum amount of activity as would be usual for the calculations usually involved in that subject matter), then the over-activity would lead to more firing of neighboring cells that are not the appropriate cells for that subject matter and might increase the connectivity during that period with cells that are not the most appropriate cells for the optimum benefit of the cellular event of that moment - cells that deal with different subject matter but happen to be firing at the same time. This over-activity leads to greater possibilities that increased connectivity will occur with other cells that have different interests in their connectivity that would lead to the greatest possibility of firing at the optimal frequencies for success. (Cells that most commonly fire in synchronicity are associated with the spotting of patterns of similar subject matter - this is an observation that current medical science has gotten right, as opposed to a variety of interpretations of data that they have gotten wrong, although there is some adjustment needed in how they describe such statistical coordination.)
If there is a great amount of over-excitation in a network of cells, then there will be a strengthening of all connections for enough time that cells will keep firing even while they strengthen their connections to cells that send signals to inhibit the original cells. So the over-excitation indirectly leads to a greater amount of signals that are strengthened in their ability to inhibit the original cell (when a more subdued amount of activity would lead to a greater proportion of strengthening of connectivity to other cells that leads to optimal frequencies instead of going too far and too long and learning to subdue that same activity). Ideally, the cell would fire in such a way as to strengthen the right amounts of excitation influences back to itself and stop this characteristic of firing before the inhibitory influences that will eventually stop the firing have gained strength (by having enough time firing in this way as to lead to proportionately more strengthening of connectivity to be permanently more inhibitory).
I know this is hard language to read, but the truth is in it if you can muddle through to understand the concept. It all adds up to another reason for the concept I've written about earlier: that too much excitation becomes inhibitory, and too much inhibition is also inhibitory.
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