Neurobiology breaks all the rules

• Errors abound

  • No reliable components

• Noise is ubiquitous

• No evidence for discrete math

Pyramidal neurons

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• Electrical and chemical signaling
• Stochastic synaptic transmission
• Neurons may make only one synaptic junction with each other

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