Elastic Nanocomputation in an Ideal Brain (1p abstract + 36 pages + 49 endnotes) · HackerPapers discussionshttps://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1409.8275/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMTElastic Nanocomputation in an Ideal Brain (1p abstract + 36 pages + 49 endnotes) — mentioned by algorithmisthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14080691urn:hackerpapers:mention:1409.8275:14080691Mon, 10 Apr 2017 17:30:30 GMT<p>&quot;Brain-like&quot; can mean either of two things, the circuit approach or the algorithm approach. 1) Circuits: Its components look like neurons (analog internals, spikes, etc). Algorithmic: 2) It performs the same real-time 3-D tomography/simulation/control which real brains perform. This second approach is unusual in ignoring &quot;neurons&quot; entirely, but has the advantage that 3-D reconstruction from undersampled, quantized inputs is a well-posed computational problem, although it does require a difficult-to-imagine continuous, self-amplifying 3-D representational medium to make it work. My…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1409.8275/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>q-bio.NC