Just a small mental burp, while this thesaurus is (still) loading.
In case you are looking for a mental image to visualize this whole concept, try this: Resonance. When a link gets activated (for instance, the one to the very first neuron), it creates a resonance that triggers one or more other neurons. This excitation in turn can cause another link between 2 neurons to be activated, causing more resonance and so and and on until the whole thing settles down.
I have absolutely no prove or idea that this is how it works in the real world, that’s just how my model can be interpreted. Truth be told, this is not how I conceived the thing (aka lets try to create a model that uses resonance), it was rather more like: I have 2 neurons, they are linked, how can I make something happen? Well, I can attach some code to the link and execute that. Cool. But, wait a moment, that looks like resonance…
and we just passed ‘culminate’, pfff