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For example, "Almost everybody accepts that the brain does a tremendous amount of analog processing. The controversy lies in whether there is anything digital about it." [1]

[1]: http://www.rle.mit.edu/acbs/pdfpublications/journal_papers/a... (page 30 of the PDF, labelled 1630)

While neural action potentials are binary (either absent or identical to every other AP) they encode temporally an analog signal (internal charge, ion concentration) with amplitude in proportion to frequency.

Most computational biology researchers would be more likely to compare synapses to memristors nowadays.