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In contrast to earlier generations of neural net models, third generation spiking neural nets exhibit important temporal and dynamic properties, and random neural nets provide alternative probabilistic approaches. Our definitions of realization are based on the Discrete Event System Specification (DEVS) formalism that fundamentally include temporal and probabilistic characteristics of neuron system inputs, state, and outputs. The realizations that we construct\u2014in particular for the Exclusive Or (XOR) logic gate\u2014provide insight into the temporal and probabilistic characteristics that real neural systems might display. 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