Determinism and Randomness

• Theoretically all Newtonian systems (including biology) can be represented deterministically.
• Unfortunately, like the weather, you need to know all the initial conditions.
• So, you can only predict what will happen for a small time (a week for the weather) from initial conditions.
• You also will eventually have to deal with quantuum behaviour.
• That is, any reasonable reperesentation of a neuron (synapse, or glia) needs to deal with the random behaviour we observe.
• They don't behave deterministically.