Variants of the Binary Cell Assembly

• The last version of the NEAL binary CA had 10 neurons.
• Eight of the neurons were excitatory and two inhibitory.
• Connections from the inhibitory and excitatory neurons were identical.
• If you fired the 8 excitatory neurons, they would persist indefinitely at the same interval (5ms with a 1ms time step).
• If they started to fire more rapidly, they would activate the inhibitory neurons which would then slow down the system by inhibiting the excitatory neurons.
• I initially started doing these things with adaptive neurons.
• They'd eventually stop, but I fixed that with two sets of neurons that activated each other, getting a sort of synfire chain.
• You could of course do it with two neurons or even one neuron that activated itself.
• I've been working under the premise that it takes 3 neurons to make another neuron fire.