Yeah I mean if you look at the structure of Neurons it's easy to understand them as an extremely optimized version of "normal" intercellular communication. I mean all a synapse really is is chemical signaling between two adjacent cells.
The structure of neurons allows them to achieve "adjacency" to other cells which would be far from one another in most tissues, and electrical transmission of the action potential just allows neurons to control that chemical signaling in a very precise and directed way.
The structure of neurons allows them to achieve "adjacency" to other cells which would be far from one another in most tissues, and electrical transmission of the action potential just allows neurons to control that chemical signaling in a very precise and directed way.