Catch or Crash (iuSTDP part 3)

TL;DR: Part 2 gave the owl a confidence governor: when timing is noisy, stop learning. But the owl still can&rsquo;t tell a catch from a miss. For that it needs a reward signal — and that signal isn&rsquo;t what you think. Dopamine doesn&rsquo;t flood the brain. It barely makes it past the neighbors. If we&rsquo;re building a spiking neural network that spans servers, the reward signal has to work…