equitableness

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It is known that specialized proteins known as sodium channels found in cell membranes produce electrical impulses in "excitable" cells within muscles, the nervous system, and the heart.

From Science Daily • Jan. 3, 2024

We therefore suggest that the higher-level awareness of animal organisms is, in essence, a consequence of the coordinated “irritability” of billions of excitable cells.

From Scientific American • Jun. 17, 2015

Nevertheless, the hypersensitivity of neurons in the animal nervous system is truly unusual in terms of its rapid recruitment of other similarly excitable cells in driving behavior that can restore biological equanimity.

From Scientific American • Jun. 17, 2015

We hypothesize that the “hard problems” of sentience, awareness, and ultimately primate self-consciousness begin with the response of excitable cells to external stimuli that threaten to disturb cellular homeostasis.

From Scientific American • Jun. 17, 2015