When presenting a really novel idea like this, it is very difficult to predict where the objections will come from. I was fully expecting objections of neural plausibility, which I was attempting to pre-empt. Furthermore, in my opinion, the gap junction hypothesis adds a great deal to the concept, because it circumvents the temporal limitation of the concept of spike train integration across the chemical synapse, allowing resonances to occur at frequencies which are orders of magnitude greater than any circuit containing chemical synapses. I am amazed that this reviewer does not see the implications of this for neuroscience! You see gap junctions have always been dismissed as significant neurocomputational elements because they have none of the switching or gating functions offered by the chemical synapse. If there is an alternative pattern formation mechanism in the brain that makes use of these otherwise "useless" components that would be very significant indeed!