Any chemical process is going to be much much slower than an electrical one. From a Darwinian standpoint, any organism with slow chemical reaction bottlenecks is going to loose to an organism working without them; I'm certain any electro-chemical activity occurring in the body is solely for inducing chemical reactions in the body.
Take adrenaline for example,
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The hormone boosts the supply of oxygen and glucose to the brain and muscles, while suppressing other non-emergency bodily processes (ex: digestion and immune system).
It increases heart rate and stroke volume, dilates the pupils, and constricts arterioles in the skin and gut while dilating arterioles in skeletal muscles. It elevates the blood sugar level by increasing catalysis of glycogen to glucose in the liver, and at the same time begins the breakdown of lipids in fat cells.
It takes about 1.5 minutes for blood to completely circulate throughout the body, so why even release a redundant chemical process if an electrical one can do the same thing? Because chemical processes are easier to maintain over longer periods of time. Running away from the giant creature can become dull after a while, it's just the same thing over & over after all; there's ample opportunity for the mind to get distracted, thinking of what to do next perhaps, whereupon the creature gets you. In an adrenaline high, even if the mind gets monetarily distracted, the body is still prepped and ready for action.
When it comes to processes that don't require direct physical interaction, faster is better, and (physicists say) the fastest you can go is the speed of light. It's crucial to not have chemical interactions slowing things down, mostly when it comes to calculating and planning, but especially getting sensory information. All the physical senses are tied directly to the nervous system, if you can sense something, there's a neuron there connected to the CNS, operating electrically.
All electrical activity creates not just a flow of electrons but radiate waves as well, it's how we're able to broadcast radio and television (
demonstration). Any time your brain cells or any other cell in your body has any sort of electrical activity, it creates a electrical field. These fields are oscilloscope-measurable, surrounding + extending beyond the body and their frequency makeup corresponds with the colors people can seen in the aura. They're not
just byproducts of the body, as they can detect and react to a pain response before the physical nerves do (it's some obscenely fast ratio). There's no doubt these fields can influence the world as much as any wireless transmitter, and I suspect some of their
effects can be considered psionic activity, but not all.
I'm sure there's more people researching this area, but the only person I've come across so far is
Valerie Hunt, who has an excellent book that brings the aura into the realm of science, called
Infinite Mind. She's got a lot more about frequency levels and their relation to levels consciousness, Schumann resonance, & more stuff that would take a while to even list.
This post has been edited by SeekerVI: Nov 19 2007, 07:11 PM