Electrical Compartmentalization in Neurons
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"The computational significance of these subunits arises from their ability to support independent regenerative events... When triggered independently, these local regenerative events are predicted to enable individual neurons to function as two-layer neural networks."
That is to say, every individual neuron is in and of itself a two-layer network. Think about that.
That was the conclusion of another paper linked here a few weeks back.
The other comes from the mind-boggling (heh) connectivity between them.
If you’re a podcast listener, pick an episode you’ve heard in the last week, scrub to a spot halfway through and start listening. Do you start getting little flashbacks of what you were doing when you heard it the first time?
All that’s in there.
It is absurdly, fractally complicated, from the level individual ion channels (which have properties akin to cells), individual neurons and much larger neural circuits.