Introduction and Simple Point Neuron Models

• The brain and the rest of the nervous system is made up of neurons. (Glia, blood vessels, and other things affect the neurons.)
• The standard academic thinking is that almost all cognitive (and a lot of sub-cognitive) activity is done with those neurons.
• The academic community has a good understanding of neurons, but it is far from complete.
• The academic community does not have a good understanding of how neurons work together to think.
• We're interested in modelling neurons on computers.
• Hopefully we can make some progress on understanding how neurons work together to think.