document: The importance of continuity : a reply to Chris Eliasmith In his reply to Eliasmith -LRB- see ibid. , vol .11 , p.417-26 , 2001 -RRB- Poznanski considers how the notion of continuity of dynamic representations serves as a beacon for an integrative neuroscience to emerge . He considers how the importance of continuity has come under attack from Eliasmith -LRB- 2001 -RRB- who claims : -LRB- i -RRB- continuous nature of neurons is not relevant to the information they process , and -LRB- ii -RRB- continuity is not important for understanding cognition because the various sources of noise introduce uncertainty into spike arrival times , so encoding and decoding spike trains must be discrete at some level
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extractive_keyphrases: continuity dynamic representations integrative neuroscience neurons cognition uncertainty spike arrival times spike trains
abstractive_keyphrases: cognitive systems neural nets