[SenorTibbs]

Not as a correction but more of an into the weeds clarification; neurons at rest have a pretty stable cytosolic ionic composition, they hover around -80mV resting potential due to leak channels.

The firing of an action potential, on the other hand, only happens when they become depolarized enough to reach their threshold potential. If they reach the threshold (generally due to ligand-receptor binding) then voltage gated sodium channels open up and the neuron gets flooded with positive charge - this is the electrical impulse that moves down the axon.

To be honest I'm not someone who knows much about about computer science, but in terms of a boolean type operator the closest thing that comes to mind is the threshold potential? It's an all or nothing process, either T or F, and if it's true then an action potential is generated.