Re: you guys are morons

On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 15:17:38 -0700, spintronic
<spintronic@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Signals between the synapses are either sent or not. (thats binary)


That happens to be a common misperception of how neurons work. It is
completely incorrect. The enormous bulk of neural processing is
entirely analog and occurs without all-or-none action potentials in
local circuits within and between dendrites.



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