Field computation in natural and artificial intelligence

We review the concepts of field computation, a model of computation that processes information represented as spatially continuous arrangements of continuous data. We show that many processes in the brain are described usefully as field computation. Throughout we stress the connections between field...

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Published in:Information sciences 1999-10, Vol.119 (1), p.73-89
Main Author: MacLennan, Bruce J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Active information
Analog computation
Bohm
Coarse coding
Coherent state
Computational map
Continuous representation
Continuum computation
Convolution
Cortical map
Diffusion
Direction field
Discrete
Field computation
Field computer
Gabor
Hilbert space
Hiley
Information
Information field
Logon
Molecular computer
Molecular computing
Multiresolution
Optical computer
Optical computing
Phase
Phase encoding
Pragmatic information
Pragmatics
Pribram
Quantum computation
Quantum computer
Quantum mechanics
Quantum potential
Radial basis function
RBF
Subsymbolic
Superposition
Symbol
Uncertainty principle
Wavelet
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Summary:We review the concepts of field computation, a model of computation that processes information represented as spatially continuous arrangements of continuous data. We show that many processes in the brain are described usefully as field computation. Throughout we stress the connections between field computation and quantum mechanics, especially including the important role of information fields, which represent by virtue of their form rather than their magnitude. We also show that field computation permits simultaneous nonlinear computation in linear superposition.
ISSN:0020-0255
1872-6291
DOI:10.1016/S0020-0255(99)00053-5