Building an organic computing device with multiple interconnected brains

Building an organic computing device with multiple interconnected brains

Recently, we proposed that Brainets, i.e. networks formed by multiple animal brains, cooperating and exchanging information in real time through direct brain-to-brain interfaces, could provide the core of a new type of computing device: an organic computer. Here, we describe the first experimental demonstration of such a Brainet, built by interconnecting four adult rat brains. Brainets worked b...

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Building brains with Iqr

The brain is organized at many different levels, from sub-cellular processes to the overall system. A key challenge in studying and developing technology based on the brain is rooted in the question of how the organ can most effectively be described and studied. Another compelling reason for tackling the brain’s organization lies in the fact that its different levels are not independent but int...

Toward an optimal foundation architecture for optoelectronic computing. Part I. Regularly interconnected device planes.

By systematically examining the tree of possibilities for optoelectronic computing architectures and offering arguments that allow one to prune suboptimal branches of this tree, I come to the conclusion that electronic circuit planes interconnected optically according to regular connection patterns represent an alternative that is reasonably close to the best possible, as defined by physical li...

Building brains for bodies

We describe a project to capitalize on newly available levels of computational resources in order to understand human cognition. We are building an integrated physical system including vision, sound input and output, and dextrous manipulation, all controlled by a continuously operating large scale parallel MIMD computer. The resulting system will learn to "think" by building on its bodily exper...