This text is more in the spirit of exploration of new and interdisciplinary ideas than a presentation of some specific technique or a set of techniques in a textbook form. The objective is to discover common themes and analogous mechanisms in the nervous system and computing devices. Nature uses optimality ubiquitously. Optimality, therefore, has been the guiding theme out of which emerged three principles: polymorphism in neural circuits and parallel machines; chaos and hyperbolicity in the collective behaviour of neurons; and the task-to-processing elements map in parallel systems. The book is interdisciplinary in nature. Each chapter takes the form of a review paper, with relevant digression and bibliography.
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978-981-02-1365-7 (9789810213657)
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Part 1 Compositional processing: effective computation - the symbol processing; formal systems - the symbol processing; reasoning with partial knowledge - the symbol processing paradigm III. Part 2 The nervous system: the brain; tuned array processors in the brain. Part 3 Non compositional processing: threshold networks; tag automata, tiling and dynamical systems; hyperbolicity I; computability over the reals. Part 4 A comparison of nervous system and machines: the binding problems; the mapping problem I; the mapping problem II. Part 5 Foundation and philosophical issues: some formal problems; issues in the computational theories of mind.
