Book Review: Rhythms Of The Brain
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The Brain Is a Cellular Automaton
This model assumes neurons are either in a steady off or on state, and that once on they stay on forever. Here's a very slightly less fake model. A neuron goes on for one tick of the clock, then switches to off for one tick, refractory period, then it's available to be switched on again. Scott writes, you get concentric rings of oscillating on and off. I can't stress enough how fake this model is. Wozaki doesn't use it, even his simplified examples are much more careful. But this was what helped me, who is not a neuroscientist but does play around with Conway's game of life sometimes, get a basic intuition
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