A NOR gate outputs a 1 if all the inputs are 0 and a 0 if any inputs are 1. You can implement any logic circuit with just NOR gates. If you add a time delay then you can build flip flops (memory) and oscillators using recurrent networks.
One way to specify a logic circuit would be to number the inputs and gates, then to list for each gate the numbers for it's inputs. The final n gates would be the outputs. The problem as I understand it is to build a circuit with n inputs and n outputs such that there is one wire connecting the input and output circuits and the output is a copy of the input. For n = 1 the problem can be solved with 2 inverters (1 input NOR gates) like this: 2 1 3 2. Each line is a gate number followed by a list of inputs. The circuit input is 1. The output is 3. Gate 2 takes input from 1. Gate 3 takes input from 2. The single connecting wire is 2. For n > 1 you need to build a circuit to transmit the data serially and convert back to parallel. The output must be valid for at least 1 time unit at some point after the input is fixed. The metric to minimize is the number of gate inputs, in this example 2. On Mon, Oct 11, 2021, 4:05 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > @csmicahelliott I understand it completely and still don't get this guy. > *Artificial General Intelligence List <https://agi.topicbox.com/latest>* > / AGI / see discussions <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi> + > participants <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/members> + > delivery options <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription> > Permalink > <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T728994814c1a40a0-M227b5a7f9f164ef01652a103> > ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T728994814c1a40a0-M2e70875d482800880c6f6bd7 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
