So, we have now discovered this:
One enzyme, and only one, supplies the energy to load neurotransmitters into containers, which is how neurons communicate. The network of neurons is, well, us. These containers store neurotransmitters and release them when they are needed.
Well, it turns out that this enzyme, V-ATPase, turns off 40% of the time. Meaning there's no loading. Does this mean those neurons can't communicate.
One theory is that the pattern of on-off in this enzyme may be another way of encoding information into our brains, one we didn't know about. This is true for all mammalian brains. It could be a problem, but it feels too deliberate to me. I bet we'll find this is key to...something.
(Birds organize their brains very differently).
Brains are weird.
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