Brain Agency: A Neuronal Model Following the Path of Influence

While discussing the different roles and definitions we place on "agency" and "agent", I came to the idea that these descriptors we use to explain the creation and transfer of ideas follow much the same processes as neurons in the brain.  For starters, the central agent in the creation of an idea or text, which we call the author, is very similar to the body of a neuron.  The body allows for the generation of the cellular machinery, which carries out the organization and transfer of information.  The body makes creation possible.  The dendrites of a neuron receive input and excite the neuron to a threshold, at which it will generate a signal.  The dendrites in terms of agent and agency could be viewed as all of the influences acting on the author.  Almost limitless influences such as previous authors, society, or basically any external or internal stimulus.  These influences add up to reach the threshold, at which point the the author relays the created idea, or pulse, down the axon.  The axon of the neuron serves in for the process of creating a text or media.  The axon exchanges sodium and potassium, like the author exchanges time and energy, to move the signal along, or create a text.  The signal eventually reaches the terminal button, or the completed text.  At this point the work is distributed to the next neurons' dendrites, influencing future works, ideas, and decisions.  Not all neurons will react the same to a transmitted signal, the same as not all people react the same to ideas.  Some neurons allow for feedback, allowing for the signal to be revised.  Just as some media, such as blogs and some texts can be revised.  Basically, the neuron serves as a great model in the representation of the transfer of agency.  The act of creating an idea or text can viewed as the culmination of inconceivable amounts of information into the stimuli which influence an author, altering the dynamic through a singular path, which is then available to become yet another stimulus for future authors to draw upon.