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>From: erwin@trwacs.fp.trw.com (Harry Erwin)
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Subject: Report Received
Keywords: chaos neuroscience
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Freeman, Walter J., 1992. "Neural Networks and Chaos," INNS Above Threshold,
Fall 1992.
 
This paper provides a review of brain functions that underlie perception and
motor control, in the context of the contribution of chaotic dynamics to the
functions of memory and recall.
 
Background: I believe we're between 2 and 10 years away from building a
cognitive machine.  Freeman's work provides insight into how that machine
might be built. Based on his results and other work, I propose that the
cognitive machine will not be a von Neumann machine, but will use chaotic
processing instead. Other design features will be the downloading of tracking
programs to the sensor processors to track specific objects in real time,
the use of non-linear models of the behavior of specific objects defined
semantically, redirection of sensory data streams, reprocessing of sensory
data streams, efficient parallel algorithms for pattern recognition, dualistic
heuristic programming for the control of motor actions, pseudo-holographic
memory storage, and attention handled by recognition and suppression
processes. We may also use complex neuron models involving dynamic
switching in dendritic arbor and non-linear FM readouts at the axon.

Read the paper and see the movie 8)
-- 
Harry Erwin
Internet: erwin@trwacs.fp.trw.com



