I came across this amazing lecture by Dr Michael Levin at NeurIPS 2018:
The entire presentation is full of interesting information, but if you don’t have much time, there are two short parts that I think this community will find interesting.
There are ion channels and electical synapses in other cells than neurons, and they regulate a form of computation:
Clip 1
And this part might interest @jhawkins in particular. It seems that primitive brains also have a form of plasticity to rewire themselves when sensory input enters from a different location:
Clip 2