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Ephaptic Coupling

Non-synaptic neural communication through continuous electric fields; modulates excitability and encodes neural syntax for temporal integration.

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  • Brains perform simultaneous discrete operations (spikes) and continuous operations (graded potentials, fields) that co-determine each other; distinguishes biological from digital substrates.
  • Scale Inseparability
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    Central tenet: biological computation is fundamentally non-modular; molecular, cellular, and population scales bidirectionally co-determine each other without privileged level.

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