Eli5: What are the electrical impulses in the brain?
In: Biology
Those are your thoughts. Rather, a series of electrical pulses and the routes they take are your thoughts and memories.
A neuron is basically like a long wire and it can quickly send a current through itself. When it reaches the end, it send a chemical (neurotransmitter) across a small gap where it can meet the next neuron and instruct it to send its own electrical impulse.
Repeat this billions of times and you have a brain going.
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