Another idea on the previous post...

Something has occurred to me since my last post about where to implement the behaviour common to traditional neurons in the Clique Space(TM) Neuron.

Currently, no weights, activation, bias, or other well known mechanism commonly seen in traditional neurons (with the possible exception of  structure that resembles a Clique Space synapse) is currently implemented in the Client Device, or the Neuron as an extension of the Client Device. It currently seems too premature to implement any traditional neurologic within these two projects; it instead seems better to delay implementation to an extension of the Neuron that can handle specific device types and can also implement any variety of neurological mechanism chosen by the organisation that implements such an extension, or no mechanism at all.

The Client Device and Neuron projects define the purpose and structure of qualia and Elements: Connections, Participants, Identities, the Sovereign - and all of their surrogates. The base protocol for the transmission of deliberations and their enclosed signals, as well as synapse and thinker structure are also defined primarily in the Client Device, but are extended in the Neuron to define similar structures that permit the transmission of messages. The Client Device uses the structure defined within it to facilitate the transmission of challenges only.

The rationale of my conclusion is the following: a relay Neuron is a specific type of Neuron; it acts in a mere signal forwarding capacity. These Neurons don't contribute in any substantial way to cognition, and therefore don't have a need to be equipped with the mechanisms - the Connection weights, activation, bias etc. - that equip a neuron with a greater ability to participate in cognition. A relay Neuron can extend the Neuron without addition of functional structure. Relay Neurons do not inherit anything more than those mechanisms that make a relay Neuron do what it needs to do if traditional neurologic is not implemented in the Neuron.

Hence, I think details relating to traditionally defined neurological mechanism can be reasonably deferred to the more specific types of Neuron that need these mechanisms.