This piece is a contribution to the STSC Symposium, a monthly set-theme collaboration between STSC writers. The topic for this upcoming issue is Procrastination. You from now on know that any action is neurologically started by a process called disinhibition. The counterintuitive truth is, there is hardly any energy involved in setting off a movement. The neurons responsible for triggering any activity, be it extending your arm or uttering a sound, are charged with the energy to accomplish it at every moment. When the signal of “do this” comes from the brain, the process of disinhibition is merely an opening of the floodgates at those synapses and the charge turns into an electrical signal which contracts the targeted muscles necessary for that act.
Not Releasing Inaction
Not Releasing Inaction
Not Releasing Inaction
This piece is a contribution to the STSC Symposium, a monthly set-theme collaboration between STSC writers. The topic for this upcoming issue is Procrastination. You from now on know that any action is neurologically started by a process called disinhibition. The counterintuitive truth is, there is hardly any energy involved in setting off a movement. The neurons responsible for triggering any activity, be it extending your arm or uttering a sound, are charged with the energy to accomplish it at every moment. When the signal of “do this” comes from the brain, the process of disinhibition is merely an opening of the floodgates at those synapses and the charge turns into an electrical signal which contracts the targeted muscles necessary for that act.