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Well, neurons have many properties... their information processing capabilities are one aspect, but they also deal with the physical level of communication and
by partycoder 10y ago
Well, neurons have many properties... their information processing capabilities are one aspect, but they also deal with the physical level of communication and staying healthy.
Neurons are also a family of cells, and are very diverse in shapes and functions. We tend to oversimplify our representation of neurons. There are simple neurons and then you have neurons like the Purkinje cell that are massive.
Neurons also rely on their counterparts, the glial cells, that are much less often mentioned.
I think because of this, it will be a while until we fully understand the role of each one of them.
- joantune 10y agoIf i'm not mistaken (I had the introductory class on Neural networks quite some years ago) this all started out of trying to simulate neurons in a manner. Much so that one of the pioneers of this got discredited by other scientist that for some reason simply could not accept that these would work, and that same pioneer started to get his funding discredited and started believing in his opposition so much so that he sailed away to his death, some argue intentionally (as his life's work had been, even by his eyes, seen as useless). Now, I'm having a hard time remembering the names of the people on that story, if someone knows who I'm talking about, please remind me of those
- partycoder 10y agoProbably you might be referring to McCulloch and Pitts.