A traditional brain on a computer

SynthNet is a brain emulator. Unlike most modern software neural networks, it works at the electrochemical level. Each neural structure in it is generated from a genetic virtual machine that executes instructions in a genetic assembly language.

SynthNet is at an early stage, but right now, it can emulate a classic fear-conditioning experiment.

posted by ignignokt on May 9, 2012 - 31 comments