What is Spontaneous Neural Firing
- A Leaky Integrator is a Simplified Model of a Neuron
- A neuron gets activation (from its dendrites)
- If the activation surpasses a threshold, the neuron fires sending
activation down its axons
- If it doesn't get enough activation, the activation leaks away. Future
incoming activation can add to the remaining old activation to surpass
the threshold
- Neural fatigue from repeated firing plays a part
- Sometimes, even with low stored activation, neurons spontaneously
fire
- This may have something to do with not having fired in a long time.
Fatigue may have a flip side.
- This may be a biological necessity. The neurons need to fire
occasionally or they develop a chemical imbalance.
- Is there also a computational reason?
