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A biological neural network is composed of a group of connected neurons. A single neuron may be connected to many other neurons and the total number of neurons and connections in a network may be significantly high. One of the amazing aspects of biological neural networks is that when the neurons are connected to each other, higher-level intelligence, which cannot be observed from a single neuron, emerges.
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Ye, J.C. (2022). Biological Neural Networks. In: Geometry of Deep Learning. Mathematics in Industry, vol 37. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6046-7_5
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