Neurons pass along messages to one another to "fire" or "not fire" in a fashion similar to the use of 1s and 0s by computers to represent complex information.

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Neurons communicate through electrical and chemical signals, where the firing of a neuron (action potential) can be thought of as a '1' (on state), and the lack of firing as a '0' (off state), analogous to binary code in computers where information is represented through sequences of 1s and 0s.

Neurons Pass Along Messages to One Another to "Fire" or "Not