[joycian]

A neuron contains thousands if not millions of transistor-equivalents in the form of gene level and ion level switches. I'm not saying that you couldn't do it with 100 transistors, or that everything in a neuron is needed for this application, but I just wanted to clarify.

[shard]

Right, the transistor is not fully simulating a neuron, just a first order approximation of the electrical impulse response. It's close enough for government work, as they say.