X-Message-Number: 26116 From: Date: Sun, 1 May 2005 01:50:21 EDT Subject: Re: CryoNet #26109 To T. Donaldson You said: > So we come to the question of how the axon of the sending neuron > grows properly toward the receiving neuron. In real neurons, > guidance is by chemical factors released by the receiving neuron, > by astrocytes surrounding it, or by other nearby cells. Growth > involves sensing these factors. The shape of the action potential seems to convey no information, so, as I have said before, there is no need to reproduce it, a simple rectangular wave is sufficient. This one can be efficiently broadcasted from a computer table. To link neuron X1send to neuron X2receiv , It suffice to put the X2receiv address in the sending table of X1send and create an entry for X1send on a new synapse in X2receiv (the whole synapse is simulated on X2receiv, includind the presynaptic axon terminal). This is a rather trivial software piece. Yvan Bozzonetti. Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=26116