title: Human hormone function emulator.
abstract: This paper describes the addition of simulated hormone action to the author's modular, open-systems, computerized human nervous system function emulator. For this project he revived his 32-year old design for a pulse-integrating artificial neuron with controlled voltage droop and reset, to serve as the principal linear computational element. This neuron sums bursts of quantized presynaptic impulses to produce a simulated altered cell membrane voltage. When coupled with a variable-threshold Schmitt trigger, voltage changes can initiate a mock action potential signal. These altered neural membrane voltages and action potential signals are utilized in the nervous system emulator to qualitatively emulate the level of simulated hormone activity, to react to changes in the electrochemical environment, and to signal initiation of high level behavioral responses in the artificial intelligence system.
authors.affiliation: A Working Hypothesis, Inc., P.O. Box 820506, Houston, TX 77282-0506, USA. pfrenger@alumni.rice.edu
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Frenger
mesh_terms: D000200:Action Potentials / Q000502:physiology*; D003198:Computer Simulation; D004703:Endocrine System / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008959:Models, Neurological; D009424:Nervous System Physiological Phenomena; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D018377:Neurotransmitter Agents / Q000378:metabolism*; D009435:Synaptic Transmission / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D018377:Neurotransmitter Agents