Right, nerve conduction is the diffusion of ions perpendicular to the axis of propagation not electrons parallel to that axis.
Kind of looks like what you'd expect if you had to co-opt an existing cell to do signal transport functions.
It is even less like what we generally consider 'electrical' signalling when you consider what happens at the places where nerves meet to communicate and calculate, the synapses. The signal is propagated there not by electrical activity at all but by the secretion of small molecules (neurotransmitters) which diffuse across the synaptic gap between cells and which alter the membrane permeability to the even smaller ions (Na+, K+) to kick off an impulse on the post synaptic cell.
Designed??? Only by an incompetent who likes slow, complicated and inefficient.
True, nerves are weird.
Kind of looks like what you'd expect if you had to co-opt an existing cell to do signal transport functions.
It is even less like what we generally consider 'electrical' signalling when you consider what happens at the places where nerves meet to communicate and calculate, the synapses. The signal is propagated there not by electrical activity at all but by the secretion of small molecules (neurotransmitters) which diffuse across the synaptic gap between cells and which alter the membrane permeability to the even smaller ions (Na+, K+) to kick off an impulse on the post synaptic cell.
Designed??? Only by an incompetent who likes slow, complicated and inefficient.
True, nerves are weird.
So how, exactly, does God know that She's NOT a brain in a vat? 
