Does a randomly organized electrical circuit function as a neuronal system?

Citation
K. Kawamura et al., Does a randomly organized electrical circuit function as a neuronal system?, JPN J A P 1, 40(3B), 2001, pp. 2095-2099
Citations number
7
Categorie Soggetti
Apllied Physucs/Condensed Matter/Materiales Science
Volume
40
Issue
3B
Year of publication
2001
Pages
2095 - 2099
Database
ISI
SICI code
Abstract
It is argued that a randomly fabricated electric circuit functions as an in formation processor. Indeed, the neuronal system of Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) is a random network which processes various information for th e survival of the worm. After properties of the connectivity of the neurona l system of the worm are reviewed to emphasize its randomness, it is confir med that a network of resistors, which is topologically homologous to the n euronal network of C. elegans, can encode a decision table which is similar to the decision table of the native responses of the worm. Some structural properties, which are advantageous for the functioning of a random resisto r network for an information processor, are discussed. In addition, it is s uggested that a network of resistors with these propeties is a bundle of in tertwisted wires connected by some resistive particles.