The “neuron” in a neural network is just a non linear function of the weighted sum of the inputs (plus a bias term). See the “definition” section in https://en

The “neuron” in a neural network is just a non linear function of the weighted sum of the inputs (plus a bias term). See the “definition” section in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptron https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptron .