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The basic principles of our design are derived from
the biology of the neocortex:
- 1.
Each module stores and processes data of given types
characteristic of that module.
- 2.
To form systems, modules are
connected in a fixed network with dedicated point-to-point
channels.
- 3.
Modules are organized as a perception-action hierarchy.
- 4.
Modules process data received and/or stored locally by them.
There is no central manager or controller.
- 5.
Modules are all rule based with a common rule
execution process.
- 6.
All modules do similar amounts of processing
and run at about the same speed.
- 7.
There is data parallelism in communication, storage and processing.
Processing within a module is highly parallel.
Parallel coded data is transmitted, stored, and triggers processing.
Processing acts on parallel data to produce parallel data.
- 8.
The data items being transmitted, stored and processed
can involve a lot of information; they can be complex.
- 9.
The modules act continuously and in parallel; they do not
wait for other modules or data.
- 10.
Most of the learning occurs in specialized learning modules,
which dynamically create knowledge for modules.
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