Eli5: What are the electrical impulses in the brain?

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Eli5: What are the electrical impulses in the brain?

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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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