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New site suggests that multivalued logic is the theory behind brain microcircuits

Dirk Wessels icircle at xs4all.nl
Mon Sep 7 11:50:58 EST 1998


david_olmsted at my-dejanews.com wrote:

> The work of Gordon Shepherd of Yale University and colleagues has
> indicated
> that the microcircuit and not the neuron is the location of the
> fundamental
> unit of information processing. Yet no theory has arisen to explain
> why this
> is so until now. My new site at http://www.neurocomputing.org suggests
> that
> microcircuits implement asynchronous multivalued logic operations.

My experience, as a computer programmer and VLSI-designer, is
that it does not make much sense for the brain to be structured in logic
modules.
Just do some automated VLSI design, and notice that the one that really
has
to work out the logic is the one behind the keyboard!
So for a brain to work out some logic circuit, which is stable and does
adapt
to changing circumstances, we need a brain to program it.


On the other hand:
Maybe I just have to wait for my computer to evolve and catch up with my
way of thinking. :-)






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