Re: Signal Processing (was BLUE GENE)

From: Phillip Huggan (cdnprodigy@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Apr 12 2006 - 10:14:50 MDT


On 4/12/06, Russell Wallace wrote:
> On 4/12/06, Martin Striz wrote:
> I'm curious, what parts of the complexity of neurons are needless?

Why propagate a signal as a transiet voltage change rather than a
direct electric (or electrochemical) current?

Actually it is both. Neurons have both the standard electrochemical propagation pathway and electrical currents too.
                
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