[MURG] Re: MURG digest, Communication in Neuronal Networks

[Eugen Leitl]

On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 02:33:49PM +1000, Alejandro Dubrovsky wrote:
> Ah, tired writing.  I was thinking 32-bit = 4 .  Disregard that second
> bit of my last email.

What I liked about that article (you can pick up the pdf 
version at http://leitl.org/~eugen/1870.pdf ) is data on
connectivity distribution over distance. This is very good
news for multiple reasons: it allows you to use relative
addressing for target ID which saves bits, assuming 
neuron body arrangement
on a relatively low-dimensional (N=3..6) grid and use
cut-through switching, which reduces circuit complexity.

This is applicable both for conventional engines
(MPI code on a large cluster) and dedicated hardware,
both conventional and molecular-circuitry. Alas, there's
no obvious way to translate digitized neuroanatomy on
that hardware target, but it is sure good news for
AI and robotics.
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