McCulloch and Pitt propose the following circuit to explain heat illusion – briefly touching a cool surface will give you a hot feeling. This is the first neural circuit for explaining a mental or perceptual phenomenon in the brain such as perception of heat. It demonstrates how neurons can perform interesting logical gate operation using spikes. Which of the following statement is NOT true.

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The provided data for this question is incomplete, making a full option-by-option analysis impossible.
First, I will restate what is available: the question asks which statement is NOT true about the McCulloch and Pitt circuit for heat illusion and neural spike logic, and the given answer field contains a single item: "(5) performs a XOR operation of the inputs from (2) and (6)". However, the list of answer options themselves is empty in the input data, so there is no set of opposing statements to evaluate.
Because the task requires evaluating each option (correct vs incorrect) to justify why it is true or false, the absence of all options prevents a complete reasoning sweep. Without the full options, we cannot justify why option (5) is NOT true, nor can we explain why any other hypothetical statements would be true or false.
In a typical analysis, one would proceed like this: for each option, check whether the claim aligns with the standard McCulloch–Pitts neuron model and the historical interpretation of the heat illusion circuit. If an option claims a specific logical function (e.g., AND, OR, XOR) based on spike inputs from certain nodes, we would verify whether such a function is consistent with the described connectivity and the known properties of simple threshold units. If an option asserts that a certain operation is not possible with a given wiring, we would examine the constraints of linear separability and the binary nature of outputs in the original model. For options that assert something about temporal dynamics or the necessity of multiple stages, we would compare with how the classic model uses static thresholds unless time dynamics are explicitly introduced.
Since the actual options to evaluate are missing, any further interpretation would be speculative. If you can provide the full set of answer options, I can deliver a step-by-step, nuanced analysis for each choice, clearly indicating why each is correct or incorrect and why the NOT-true statement is identified as such.

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