Sound clip is pretty creepy.
True but they are rates of events, which could be said to be 0 for nothing and 1 for a spike.
That being said there are definitely some things in the way neurons behave that are not very binary, from the potentials driving ion flow to the way certain proteins act. Complex on amazing levels but I’d say it’s stil just a gloopy predicting computer.
Any logic gate will fire a different rates depending on how frequently it’s fire conditions are met.
Still binary.
That’s just plainly wrong. If neurons are “activated” (the binary analogy) it starts firing, but at varying rates depending on how far above it’s threshold the activation happened. A bit like an activation level to frequency converter, but non-linear.
I think we just have different interpretations of the same behavior. I feel like we’re describing the exact same thing, just with different definitions.
It’s common for binary systems to pulse at different frequencies. That’s how binary data transmission works.