+1 Jeff. It's taken half a billion years to evolve the machinery to turn chemical reactions into intelligence, and we're only starting to figure it out in the last few decades.
On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 12:00 AM, Jeff Hawkins <[email protected]> wrote: > This is pretty cool. However, I don't think this will be a practical way > to > implement HTMs. The mechanisms for HTM require many steps of processing > and > much of it is locally specific, e.g. each dendrite segment. I don't see > how > this could be done with chemical gradients. Would love to be proved wrong. > Jeff > > -----Original Message----- > From: nupic [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris > Jernigan > Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2014 4:08 PM > To: NuPIC general mailing list. > Subject: Re: [nupic-discuss] Intelligent Chemicals > > I forgot to ask, do you think this could be used to implement an efficient > HTM? > > On Feb 6, 2014, at 6:57 PM, Chris Jernigan > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > They are doing some really cool research at Harvard on using chemical > reactions to create intelligent systems. Here is the article: > http://www.seas.harvard.edu/news/2013/12/programming-smart-molecules > > > > And a PDF of the original paper here: > > http://papers.nips.cc/paper/4901-message-passing-inference-with-chemical-rea > ction-networks.pdf > > > > Most of the math is way beyond me, but the concept seems solid enough. > What do you guys think? > > > > -Chris > > > _______________________________________________ > nupic mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.numenta.org/mailman/listinfo/nupic_lists.numenta.org > > > _______________________________________________ > nupic mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.numenta.org/mailman/listinfo/nupic_lists.numenta.org > -- Fergal Byrne, Brenter IT <http://www.examsupport.ie>http://inbits.com - Better Living through Thoughtful Technology e:[email protected] t:+353 83 4214179 Formerly of Adnet [email protected] http://www.adnet.ie
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