Michael Edelman wrote in message <36CC6078.4BC546AD at mich.com>...
>>>Ray Scanlon wrote:
>>> ...
>>>> I do not think of the computer as a model for the brain. I think of the
>> brain as a network of leaky integrators.
>>>>....which is to say, as an analog computer.
Of course! But with individual neurons having highly non-linear input and
spectacularly non-linear output. The output of the brain to the motor
neurons is essentially digital.
Ray
Those interested in how the brain works might look at
www.wsg.net/~rscanlon/brain.html