Cells are amazingly crowded as well as amazingly fast. Ditch your misconceptions about them here: http://www.righto.com/2011/07/cells-are-very-fast-and-crowded-places.html …
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There's an interesting followup here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15640750 …
What a great comment. Crowded-fast-violent was a major (but very late!) realization for me. Surprised and sad that it hid from me for so long.
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Been thinking about this a lot. Would also add stable to it. You want C-F-V in spades as long as ecosystem is stable.
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Dunno how relevant, but this was another place where my layperson’s intuition needed to be updatedpic.twitter.com/IfnenSV2RP
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density is really important in neural design- you can only place so many ion pumps in a given section of membrane, giving physical limits on action potential frequency/timingpic.twitter.com/EbYY2vK4bN
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