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i-function to neuronal signals

 The 'i-function to neuronal signals' concept seems reasonable to me.  It makes perfect sense that the signals are all the same and the pathways are different.  If the signals consist of electrical/chemical potential energy, then it is understandable that they are all same.  If you supply power in the form of electricity to a lamp, the energy only has one pathway to take and stimulate something, which turns on the light.  In our much more complex bodies, the signals are supplied and take one of a multitude of pathways.  Right now, I'm not so sure how the body chooses which pathway the signal travels through.  

One example of me not understanding how the brain decides with pathway the signal is sent through (which isn't working for me) is when I try to move each toe individually.  I think, "i'm going to wiggle my pinky toe," and sometimes it wiggles, but usually it wiggles along with the rest of my toes?  I didn't tell them to wiggle.  To me, this seems like sometimes the i-fuction is messing up in aligning the signals with the correct pathways.  

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