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We don't have analog hardware. Nerves are digital. The best we can do with them is pulse-frequency modulation.
by dTal 6y ago
We don't have analog hardware. Nerves are digital. The best we can do with them is pulse-frequency modulation.
- TeMPOraL 6y agoI'm not convinced real neurons are just binary summators. But regardless of that, there's also chemical transmission involved, which is an analog thing.
- dTal 6y agoRight, but the end state of all that is "neuron fires" or "neuron doesn't fire", or at best "neuron fires n times per second" - a binary state.
- PeterisP 6y agoWe have some behavior that depends on very exact timing of neuron spikes (e.g. determining direction of sounds by connecting signals from both ears), so that's kind of analog - though it does get reduced into a binary state, in the end either the "detector for offset of x microseconds towards left" fires or not.