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by buboard 2651 days ago
yes, the linked papers deal with this 2-layer abstraction of a single neuron. In reality, the neuron-to-neuron connections however are different from dendrite-soma coupling and those levels (Dendrite and soma) differ in terms of their ability to integrate synaptic inputs and undergoing plasticity, so they re not really equivalent. This is still an active area of research with a lot of unknowns.