ELECTROLYTIC AND OTHER GRODECS AS ACCURATE NEURON MODELS FOR NEURAL NETWORKS
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1997-12-01
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A grodec is a versatile entity with switched growth-decay pressure behavior.
Grodecs can be used to construct both grodec stack machines and accurate
neuron models. A grodec needs an operating fluid, and when this fluid
involves ions, pressure changes are voltage changes. A single reservoir-based
grodec has the pressure-change properties of a short section of biological
membrane, and can give rise to generalized, pressure-change action potentials.
A pair of appropriately coupled reservoir-based grodecs can generate a much
sharper action potential than can a single grodec.
The action potentials from a single reservoir-based electrolytic grodec
based on Na+, and from a coupled electrolytic grodec pair with one grodec
based on Na+ and the other based on K+, are analysed in detail. So close is
the voltage-switching mechanism and behavior of the coupled electrolytic
grodec pair to those of a neuron with dual Na+ and K+ ion switching, that it
is concluded that a neuron membrane can be regarded conceptually as a Na+
grodec coupled to a K+ grodec. Grodecs of any kind can be coupled in excitory
or inhibitory manner to form neural nets.
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Computer Science