Apparently, the neurons of c. elegans don’t even generate action potentials like mammalian neurons, rather their activity is more complicated and fundamentally analog (source).
The linear threshold spiking neuron model used by Busbice may roughly approximate the activity of mammalian neurons, but is likely a bad model of c. elegans neurons. He’s lucky that he managed to make the robot perform these simple Braitenberg-like behaviors.
Apparently, the neurons of c. elegans don’t even generate action potentials like mammalian neurons, rather their activity is more complicated and fundamentally analog (source).
The linear threshold spiking neuron model used by Busbice may roughly approximate the activity of mammalian neurons, but is likely a bad model of c. elegans neurons.
He’s lucky that he managed to make the robot perform these simple Braitenberg-like behaviors.