neuron
- n a cell that is specialized to conduct nerve impulses
- When the cell fires, you see one pattern; when it stops, you see anotheryour awareness can be read from a single neuron.
- The "information" contained in the protein which the neuron forms, reasons Hyden, becomes the impulse that the neuron sends along the filaments to other neighboring neurons.
- The objective is to form a synapse, the gap-like structure over which the axon of one neuron beams a signal to the dendrites of another.