{"id":122961,"date":"2021-05-24T11:23:06","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T18:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/neurons-act-not-as-complex-multi-unit-processing-systems"},"modified":"2021-05-24T11:23:06","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T18:23:06","slug":"neurons-act-not-as-complex-multi-unit-processing-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/neurons-act-not-as-complex-multi-unit-processing-systems","title":{"rendered":"Neurons Act Not As Complex, Multi-Unit Processing Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neurons-act-not-as-complex-multi-unit-processing-systems2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The scale-free complexity associated with the biological system in general, and the neuron in particular, means that within each cell there is a veritable macromolecular brain, at least in terms of structural complexity, and perhaps to a certain degree functional complexity as well\u2014a fractal hierarchy. This means that the extremely simplistic view of the synapse as a single digital bit is misrepresenting the reality of the situation\u2014such as, if we were to utilize the parlance of the neurocomputational model, each \u2018computational unit\u2019 contains a veritable macromolecular brain within it. There is no computer or human technology yet equivalent to this.\\.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A study published in the journal Science has upended 80 years of conventional wisdom in computational neuroscience that has modeled the neuron as a simple point-like node in a system, integrating signals and passing them along.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The scale-free complexity associated with the biological system in general, and the neuron in particular, means that within each cell there is a veritable macromolecular brain, at least in terms of structural complexity, and perhaps to a certain degree functional complexity as well\u2014a fractal hierarchy. This means that the extremely simplistic view of the synapse [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":544,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1523,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-computing","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/544"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}