It’s the comparative silence between the firing spikes of neurons that tells what they are really up to, scientists report. “The brain appears to use these durations of silence to encrypt information,” Dr. Joe Z. Tsien, neuroscientist at the Medical…
http://myfusimotors.com/2019/01/14/silence-is-golden-when-it-comes-to-how-our-brains-work/
I was taking a neurology course in which the teacher was talking about how we can distinguish sound direction when our neurons can't information at the speed of sound, and using silence and synchronicity was key to this: we have a large number of neurons distributed across the bottom of the brain, each of which receive signals from both ears, and only when both signals arrive at the same time does the nerve then depolarize. That allows the brain to know, based on which nerve triggered, the differential between the two signals. I thought (and still think) that's completely amazing.
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