Our Brains Use Binary Logic, Say Neuroscientists (sciencedaily.com)

"The brain's basic computational algorithm is organized by power-of-two-based logic," reports Sci-News, citing a neuroscientist at Augusta University's Medical College. hackingbear writes: He and his colleagues from the U.S. and China have documented the algorithm at work in seven different brain regions involved with basics like food and fear in mice and hamsters. "Intelligence is really about dealing with uncertainty and infinite possibilities," he said. "It appears to be enabled when a group of similar neurons form a variety of cliques to handle each basic like recognizing food, shelter, friends and foes. Groups of cliques then cluster into functional connectivity motifs to handle every possibility in each of these basics. The more complex the thought, the more cliques join in."

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[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:Neurons either fire or don't fire.

[Anonymous Coward]

except that patterns of firing matter.

look up eg. P3a and P3b (components of P300s) for some of the simplest examples.

Re:Not sure

[alvinrod]

Yes

Re: Neurons either fire or don't fire.

[Jfetjunky]

The difference is we actively attempt to overcome those non-idealities in electronics to get a deterministic result. They same cannot necessarily be said for neural networks. At times their core functionality works with the non-ideal features ofor the system.