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Neuron firing rates are stochastic. Even when presented with the same input, it may not always produce the same output.
by visarga 4y ago
Neuron firing rates are stochastic. Even when presented with the same input, it may not always produce the same output.
- Jensson 4y agoNeurons are stateful. I don't think you can say that neurons are stochastic, we don't know enough to say that. We do know however that single cell organisms can display remarkable amount of intelligence, so it is more likely that the neuron is doing a lot of stateful computation and decides how to treat its inputs based on that instead of just being random firing. Some neurons might output pseudo random sequences, but I doubt humans has a lot of those since humans are very non-random and bad at generating random stuff.