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My point is they operate more like gates. They aren’t mini Turing machines.

neurons have gates, these gates interconnect and form logic networks.

these are histeretic, programable, and dynamic.

the neuronal body state, the electro-osmotic environment, the past history of state are primary effectors of structure,and function resultant in the logic.

You are correct. Neurons are not Turing machines. However, they are complex enough that they can be Turing machines so it can be fun to call them that.

I didn’t expect this topic to be so controversial to be honest. I’m not surprised though.

I fully admit I may be underinformed. I had thought, though, that neurons were not sophisticated in the way a Turing machine is and much more akin to memristors. However, that may be a memristor tinted view of the world.

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