title: Harnessing vision for computation.
abstract: Might it be possible to harness the visual system to carry out artificial computations, somewhat akin to how DNA has been harnessed to carry out computation? I provide the beginnings of a research programme attempting to do this. In particular, new techniques are described for building 'visual circuits' (or 'visual software') using wire, NOT, OR, and AND gates in a visual 6modality such that our visual system acts as 'visual hardware' computing the circuit, and generating a resultant perception which is the output.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cognitive Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180, USA. changizi@rpi.edu
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Changizi
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D009415:Nerve Net; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual / Q000502:physiology; D014785:Vision, Ocular / Q000502:physiology*