The description on the page reminded me about how nervous systems might compute. Neural firing is stochastic on small time scales. People fight over whether the

The description on the page reminded me about how nervous systems might compute. Neural firing is stochastic on small time scales. People fight over whether the fine timing between spikes is important for computation, but largely it seems rates of firing are important. But, we know that the nervous system has coincidence detectors - basically AND gates for spikes. This article got me excited because I never thought of coincidence detectors as performing multiplication - an operation very hard to thing about in neural circuitry terms.