> But they can't fire 3B times a second. Fair point - but I'd argue the power comes for the combinatoric complexity, not the speed of operation. So those timi

> But they can't fire 3B times a second. Fair point - but I'd argue the power comes for the combinatoric complexity, not the speed of operation. So those timing effects can also combine with the simple connections - so if a neuron has 2 connections - the output can be controlled by not just the last signals for the 2 connections, but the relative timing of each of them. Suddenly your input space you are operating over is much much bigger - you've got 2 inputs and hundreds of ways the timing could be adjusted. Massively bigger. The fact that the whole thing doesn't operate in a big synchronous cycle is a huge jump in possible states.