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[HydrogenBond]

If one looks at the cells of the human body, there are three basic tissues that are near almost all the cells. There is circulatory tissue, lymphatic tissue and nervous tissue.

Nobody has a problem with circulatory tissue helping cellular control. It is where the blood flows allowing the input of food, oxygen and biochems, and the output of CO2, waste products, and manufactured products from the cells. If one cuts off the blood supply the cell will die.

The lympatic tissue is connected to the immune system. This works in conjunction with the blood supply to remove foreign invaders that can alter or even kill cells. Nobody has a problem with this.

The third tissue is nervous tissue. It is usually not given a role in controlling cells. It may just a well be there for purely decorative purposes, since it is not added to the equation. I suppose if one only uses two out of three variables, you are stuck in the black box by default.

Let's use a little logic to determine the function of nervous tissue with respect to cell control. If it was sensory, it would give a certain signal to the brain based on the local cell environment. If the local environment changes so will the signal up the hierachy of nervous tisse into the brain. Since the brain is both an input and an output device, nervous tissue is probally both input-output and works as part of a neural feedback system. The brain has a nervous feedback image that was induced beginning during fetal development, and it attempts to maintain this evolving image by inducing necesary local and system wide changes. If some of the local nervous tissue dies, certains cells are no longer part of the loop and will become more vulnerable to things like cancer.

Nervous tissue is not just sensory and output tissue. It is also smart tissue. Each nervous cell has a little brain on its own. The local nervous tissue has some autonomy with respect to single cell control. On top of this, is a failsafe layering of smart nervous memory hierarchy, which not only allows fail-safe single cellular control, but also control over entire organs, with the brain being the traffic cop running the whole integrated show. A timer in the brain, periocially allows system wide changes to help coordinate such things as puberty, pregnancy, etc. This is not to discount the affect of the DNA, which is another part of the fail-safe control system. But on the other hand, thing like the delayed onset of puberty could be the brain overriding the DNA because extented environmental feedback (beyond the DNA) may require the DNA's timing be delayed.

The question becomes, how is such control possible? The easiest answer is connected to charge potential. The neurons and nervous tissue place alot of positive charge on their outside membranes. In fact, it is the most of any cell in the body. The blood, on the other hand, is slightly alkaline, or slightly negative. This creates a dual potential to all the cells, one to the blood that is lower and the other to the nervous tissue which is higher.

If a cell outer membrane alters potential up or down, it alters the potential to both the blood supply and the nervous tissue. If the blood is made to stay constant in potential, regulated by its own nervous tissue, the local nervous potential one can restore and control the local cell. If it is time to make a new cell, the nervous potential drops for a little while, allowing the cell to enter the cell cycle. (during the cell cycle the membrane potential must drop).

What is sort of slick. Has anyone ever wondered how blood cell know how to find local invaders. The local nervous tissue reacts by increasing the local potential. This increases the local blood potential. To maintain its own differentiation it releases the high potential blood cells locally. This lowers the local blood potential while giving a local innume response. The brain sees the exact spot.

It is far more complicated that this, with biomolecules playing a role in the local potential and maybe even the feedback loop. This doesn't pose a problem, since the entire affect can be averaged into hydrogen bonding potential gradients, since everything dissolved in the local water will create a local average aqueous hydrogen bonding affect that pertubate the ionic gradients.

To summarize, either local nervous tissue is purely decorative or it does what it does best, thinks, senses and transmits. If it thinks, senses and tranmits, it plays a role in helping the cells maintain themselves, so the brain's big picture of the body is maintained. The easiest way is via the ionic potentials that exsit on the surfaces of nervous tissue and neurons.

We need to open the blackbox, take the two know tissues out, add the third nervous tissue, and then throw the blackbox into the garbage. Lets make biology a rational science. I could handle a gray box with logic leading empirical data and not the other way around.