Bill Skaggs <skaggs at bns.pitt.edu> wrote:
> Estimating the information content of a synapse is more
> difficult, but the plausible range of possibilities is not enormous.
Given the current knowledge about synaptical transmission and its
modulation, and especially of the postsynaptic second messenger
cascades, including IEGs and the variety of "memory molecules", I think
your statement "not enormous" is overly optimistic.
Dag Stenberg
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