Before revision: Cortical neurons exhibit rich dynamics, shaped by the presence of history-dependent biophysical mechanisms such as adaptation over different time scales. On the other hand, cortical circuits are highly recurrent which can result in chaotic network dynamics even if network nodes have simple dynamics .
After revision: While most models of randomly connected networks assume nodes with simple dynamics, nodes in realistic highly connected networks, such as neurons in the brain, exhibit intrinsic dynamics over multiple timescales .