What you are searching for Philip is called a 'synapse'*. The very thing that allows for connectivity between cells.
If you were caught speeding would it be rational to blame the manufacturer of the shoes you were wearing at the time?
After all, it was one of them that was in contact with the accelerator pedal.
It is one thing to take a mechanism apart, the better to understand its function. It is another thing altogether to hit it with a hammer and expect understanding to come from such an act, weighing and reweighing the mechanism wont help either.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synapse