[FRIAM] 100 billion neurons

[doug]

"A typical human brain has about 100 billion (10^11=100.000.000.000)
neurons,

but each neuron follows only very simple integrate-and-fire rules.'

Comment: this implies a discrete ensemble of discrete events. But isn't each
neuron's likelihood of firing dependent on the solution in which it sits,
the gradients of ions, and proximities to tier multiple firing neurons?

In which case the brain is an infinite ensemble of an infinity of analog
events.

doug





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