RE: Foundation of all Axioms the Axioms of Consciousness
September 21, 2016 at 2:27 am
(This post was last modified: September 21, 2016 at 2:33 am by I_am_not_mafia.)
(September 20, 2016 at 8:31 pm)fdesilva Wrote:(September 20, 2016 at 12:21 pm)Mathilda Wrote: I would also add that the brain does more than just sends signals between neurons as suggested by #3. Dendritic trees non-linearly sum inputs. Modulators act over a longer time scale than transmitters. Neurons also habituate or become more sensitive depending on history of their firing rate. There are various forms of inhibition too. Synapses grow stronger or weaker over time by manipulating three variables, no of release vesicle sites, probability of release and strength of signal. We don't know if dendritic spines or glial cells perform any computation or not.
Yes I will get to synapses next
No. My point was that the brain functions more than just by sending signals over synapses. The Bible of Computational Neuroscience is The Biophysics of Computation by Christoph Koch. It's an entire book about the computation that goes on within a single neuron, it's dendrites and axon. A biologically plausible neuron is far more complex than an artificial neural network
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Biophysics-Comp...0195181999