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It starts simple though. The complexity is in the numbers. The computer is decode <= fetch. Brain is Action <= Do - Don't Do. Computer is one dimensional. Brain is multidemensional. Problem is people start at the top. You have to understand the brain of a microbe before you can start to understand a...

Scratch,
Big Al could be made into a fighter, but the brain cost right now is about $19,000 each for brains alone. With production this could come down eventually to your price. Tell me what you need.

Keith I have a ton of papers and such I could send you. First one would be Hal algebra so you can see the language. Give me your email and I will send you one. These machines do exactly what the algebra says. You say Doing = Do - Don't ; which is one CNode and feed anything into Do and Don't and Doi...

dacflyer, Good question. Lot of crap about brains and computers. First, a computer is a one dimensional, sequential machine and brains are multidemensional. The microbe brain has at least two computers in it. Food = thisway - thatway and danger = thatway - thisway. This allows it to navigate between...

Keith, Thanks for responding. I am trying to run a survey and everybody is trying to tell me what to do. What I have done is take programming out of the computer, into the real world. You program, which you can write on a napkin, translates into instructions to assemble the hardware from stock. The ...

Let S,N,M be number of sensors, neurons and motors. That gives a way to measure size. List them as (S,N,M) like that. (0,0,0) is null (1,1,1) is one each and so on. A microbe brain is (2,2,2). The microbe kit is $387.56 including all sensors, nodes, motors, power, cables and booklet. Big Al is (74,2...

Why do you want a finite state machine?

josmith, The basic kit would provide the structure, like lego blocks, to learn how to build neuron trees instead of command control. You need at least one motor, one motor controller, one CNode, one battery node, two ADC's, two light sensors, 3 telephone cables for analog, 3 cables for data streams....

Beau, The hooker is in the words you have in quotes, plus the word neuron. Brains mediate between sensors and motors, or brain matches sensors to motor. There are more sensors than motors, so brains are functions. Neurons are also functions: axon = f(synapses) Note synapses is plural. This is what m...

josmith,
I live in the same world. No I have no money.

Beau, I can take a joke. However, I started working toward understanding how to build brains in 1958. (Marvin Minsky). It was in 1994 when I started over, looking for the least possible brain. (Brains are of different sizes, so there has to be a least one.) The least brain is simple comparison of tw...

You would rather hire an operator than building one. I will mark that down. Or, what did you mean?

If you could buy a kit to make many brain structures for your robots, would you and how much would you pay?

Douglas, There are plenty of recording devices and very few recognition devices. Think of sound as a stream of numbers. What you have to do is to compare the input stream with a reference stream and run a motor (or something) with an equal compare. I am mostly working on vision now, but this is also...

We are lucky to have a water temperature meter.
Water pressure will tell you if there is a leak, maybe, but so does the temperature.
So the answers are: cost and usefullness.