Psuedo Stable States
- The way a CA works is that some of its neurons fire due to, for
instance, external stimulation.
- These neurons fire and send activation to neurons they're connected
to
- but they have high synaptic strength to neurons within the CA, so
other neurons in the CA get a lot of activation.
- This causes them to fire and a cascade of neural activation
within the CA follows (CA ignition).
- Once the CA is ignited, it can remain active even after
the external activation stops.
- A stable state would have each neuron in the net retain
its state (firing or not) each time step.
- A CA is a pseudo stable state for two reasons:
- first, the same neurons tend to remain on, though they come on
and off due to fatigue;
- second, the net can move on to a new state due to, for example,
some new external activity.
