US 12,073,313 B2
Electro-optical devices and methods for identifying and inducing topological states formed among interconnecting neural modules
Stephen L. Thaler, St. Charles, MO (US)
Filed by Stephen L. Thaler, St. Charles, MO (US)
Filed on Jun. 22, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/339,658.
Application 18/339,658 is a continuation of application No. 16/449,013, filed on Jun. 21, 2019, granted, now 11,727,251.
Application 16/449,013 is a continuation of application No. 14/766,170, granted, now 10,423,875, issued on Sep. 24, 2019, previously published as PCT/US2015/010051, filed on Jan. 2, 2015.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/924,624, filed on Jan. 7, 2014.
Prior Publication US 2023/0351166 A1, Nov. 2, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06N 3/063 (2023.01); G06N 3/045 (2023.01); G06N 3/08 (2023.01)
CPC G06N 3/063 (2013.01) [G06N 3/045 (2023.01); G06N 3/08 (2013.01)] 48 Claims
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17. A system for avoiding processing bottlenecks from occurring while providing data about states of a plurality of interconnecting neural modules representing an environment to a critic in order to identify positions, geometries, and topologies of chains of the interconnecting neural modules, the system comprising:
an imagitron embodied on at least a first processor, said imagitron including a first plurality of interconnecting neural modules having states representing a reconstruction error of the neural module or activations of individual neurons therein, the interconnected first plurality of neural modules comprising one or more associative chains of said neural modules, the one or more associative chains each having a topology, and said imagitron capable of accepting environmental inputs; an array associated with said imagitron for outputting the state of one or more of the first plurality of neural modules; electrical paths for conveying the state of one or more of the first plurality of neural modules output to a thalamobot; a thalamobot embodied on at least a second processor separate from the at least one first processor, said second processor in electronic communication with the thalamobot, said thalamobot including at least one filter for globally monitoring the states of the first plurality of neural modules in the captured states from said array of neural module responses and for identifying at least one state change within the positions, geometries, and topologies of the one or more associative chains; wherein said thalamobot is in electronic communication with said imagitron for controlling chain cancellation and chain reinforcement within the imagitron; and at least one critic, wherein said at least one filter forwards said at least one state change within the positions, geometries, and topologies of the one or more associative chains to said at least one critic, and wherein said critic judges merit of said at least one change within the positions, geometries, and topologies of the one or more associative chains for strengthening or weakening the one or more associative chains.