I have been repeating the same “truth” for many years now:

Any multicellular organism is a vivid illustration of the basic principle of dialectics: Unity and struggle of opposites.

“Unity is relative, struggle is absolute!”

Egoistic cells are ready to cooperate if it is “beneficial” to them, but as soon as they begin a ruthless struggle “for a piece of the pie” they ruthlessly killing their rivals in a trough with nutritious swill!

Just like people…

There are 14 billion neurons, nerve cells in our brain.

And each neuron has contacts – synapses with other neurons in the amount of two thousand to two hundred thousand contacts.

(According to some information, it is now believed that in fact there are not 14 billion nerve cells, but as many as 150 billion. I believe that they are talking about CELLS in general, and not about neurons.)

For example, neuroglia, Schwann cells.

And here my ideas differ from the generally accepted ones: Various neurophysiological researchers attribute a wide variety of functions to Schwann cells. (I mentioned more than once the statement of the outstanding neurophysiologist Bernard Katz that the only thing Schwann cells and memory have in common is that we know nothing about both!).

I believe that these cells are PARASITES that “suck juices” from axons (long outgrowths of neurons).

And in order to somehow protect itself from these parasites, the neuron synthesizes the myelin layer, WHICH SEPARATES the Schwann cells from the axon body itself.

I ask for a little patience from the readers, I will start talking directly on the topic soon!!!

It is also known that neurons die. I had information that a thousand neurons die every day. Now their number has been increased to 150,000 per day.

The main issue is not the quantity, but the reason:

Why are they dying?

I have not found an answer in the literature. The process of neuron dying is described, but not ITS CAUSE!!

I have repeatedly suggested that the neurons that die are lazy, lazy eaters who DO NOT WANT to actively “work”, that is, to accept, add up and subtract nerve impulses.

And, so, today, during the afternoon washing of dishes, the thought came that my opinion was too strict and immeasurable.

Why does a living being die?

And a nerve cell, in particular, is also a living being!

Because some necessary part of its normal life cycle is disrupted.

The denervated (i.e., disconnected from the motor neuron) muscle atrophies and dies, although its blood supply, which delivers oxygen, water, and nutrition, is NOT DISRUPTED! But SHE’S DEVOID OF nerve impulses. which stimulate its contractions. And she needs them no less than oxygen and everything else! Muscle contractions are NOT a JOB that it has to do, but a natural and necessary part of its life cycle, its existence!

She, forgive me for naturalism, (physiology is a science about any NATURAL AND PATHOLOGICAL PROCESSES) has to “pee and poop” and does IT only at the expense of contraction! And if she is deprived of them, she dies from SELF-POISONING with her own “waste products.”

How would a man die, deprived of the opportunity to do the same!

So, in the brain there are always so-called DOMINANT chains of neurons that work all their lives, but, as I mentioned at the very beginning, cells continuously compete with each other “for the best piece of the pie” and this competition at the neural level is expressed precisely in the fact that the DOMINANT chains through their outgrowths (axons and dendrites) BLOCK the synapses of any possible “competitors” NOT dominant!

And, what is it for blocked neurons?

Similarly to denervated muscles, they ARE DEPRIVED OF NERVOUS IMPULSES, which is also a necessary part of THEIR LIFE CYCLE for them – THEIR “PEEING AND POOPING”!

All of our “Higher Nervous Activity” is nothing more than peeing and pooping on nerve cells!

Alas, all our thinking is “peed and pooped up”!

But those neurons whose synapses, which are supposed to conduct neurochemical impulses, are BLOCKED, just CAN’T get rid of the “waste products” that accumulate in them and therefore die from self-poisoning!

Life is a struggle, a struggle for existence. There is no sentiment or compassion in it!

THE UNITY of cells in a multicellular organism is RELATIVE, THE STRUGGLE IS ABSOLUTE!

That’s the answer!

Faciant meliora potentes.

If I’m wrong, let my seniors correct me!

20 IV 2026