title: Neurobiological approach to computing devices.
abstract: According to the old metaphor of classical cybernetics the brain can be considered as a computer. Newer theoretical endeavours reverse the question and ask: what could neurobiology offer to engineers of near-future generation computer systems? Three not completely disjoint abstract functions of the nervous system, namely pattern formation, pattern recognition and action, can be treated in a unified conceptual framework. Storage and retrieval mechanisms of information are connected to fault-tolerant, adaptive parallel structures. "Learning" and "plastic behaviour" are interpreted in terms of the theory of non-linear dynamic systems. As neural development and plasticity can be approached by deterministic models superimposed by random influence, noise might also have a positive role to play during the operation of technical computing devices. Molecular computation is discussed in relation to eventual hardware realization of "neurobiology-based" computers.
authors: Central Research Institute for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest.
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authors: Erdi
mesh_terms: D003491:Cybernetics; D007858:Learning; D008432:Mathematical Computing; D009462:Neurology; D010363:Pattern Recognition, Automated