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This website is about software design based on how neurons in our brain process information. On the greater front it is about how neural processes generate cognitive awareness. This all started when I got inspired by visions of synapsing waves in the recurrent neural network model way back in 1987.

In 1998, I started the Neuralmachines.com website. Around 2001, I abandoned working on the classical recurrent neural network models based on parameter error minimization of global matrix networks, and started to concentrate on how groups of neurons work together in temporal synchronization. The classical computer models of the neural network seem to be a dead end, so I sort of followed my intuition and committed to studying the temporal analysis of neural signals.

On my old website, I had written about Alan Turing's automata, and John von Neumann's statistical information circuits. Now, I'm going further into the computational processes of synthetic neurons by building models based on temporal self-synchronization. For example, in a synthetic circuit the synapse of a particular neuron can occur only when a particular set of neurons have previously fired. This synchronization depends on when each neuron synapses relative to each other in the circuit.

If you continue reading what's on this website, you'll see that I've been greatly influenced by a few people two of whom I've thought about for years. They are Satosi Watanabe and David Bohm. I also admire Walter Freeman for his insights into neuroscience, and Dennis Gabor's work on signal processing. These pages tell of my own personal interpretation of these synchronous computing machines, but most of it is through their eyes.

Glenn Takanishi
November 2010