> The membrane time constant of a biological neuron is also about 30 ms, which gives you a fair amount of wiggle room even in the face of lag.
Interesting. I had no idea it was that long. I figured it was on the order of 10s of ns.
Interesting. I had no idea it was that long. I figured it was on the order of 10s of ns.
Some very early work had estimated them as closer to 1 ms, but there were some technical problems with the measurement approach; I think that might account for some of the outliers there too.
Bear in mind that they're little bits of fat and water, so they're not going to be particularly fast. It's sort of amazing that the brain works at all!
[Also, no idea why your comment was dead, but vouched for it]