Achim Schneider wrote:
Andrew Coppin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I wonder what would happen if you instead had
a vast number of very simple proto-processors connected in a vast
network. [But I'm guessing the first thing that'll happen is that the
data is never where you want it to be...]
You're not thinking of neuronal networks, are you? The interesting
thing there is that they unite code and data.
Damn; you've seen through my cunning disguise. ;-)
In all seriousness, it's easy enough to build an artificial neural
network that computes a continuous function of several continuous
inputs. But it's much harder to see how, for example, you'd build a text
parser or something. It's really not clear how you implement flow
control with this kind of thing. It's so different to a Turing machine
is appears to render most of current computer science irrelevant. And
that's *a lot* of work to redo.
Now, if you had a network of something a bit more complicated than
artificial neurons, but less complicated than an actual CPU... you'd
have... I don't know, maybe something useful? It's hard to say.
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