Memristive model of amoeba's learning · HackerPapers discussions

Memristive model of amoeba's learning — mentioned by jaekwon

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 02:17:25 GMT

The research paper that the newscientist article is referring to ( http://arxiv.org/pdf/0810.4179v2 ) points to some resonance behavior of memristors' "LC contour". I don't understand memristors very well, but it seems that the only connection between memristors and the amoeba's "predictive" behavior is resonance, if there is a connection at all. While memristors are cool and may in fact help us understand / mimic the learning ability of animals, the amoeba's ability to "predict" external forces is a weak, weak link.

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Memristive model of amoeba's learning — mentioned by jaekwon

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:20:36 GMT

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Memristive model of amoeba's learning — mentioned by ntownsend

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:44:00 GMT

Ah. I misread the NewScientist article. It wasn't clear to me that in the experiment to mimic the slime they, in fact, modeled the slime with a circuit that _included_ a memristor and not with just a memristor. The paper the article cites also made things much clearer: http://fr.arxiv.org/abs/0810.4179

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