Searle's argument presents a serious challenge to Churchland's eliminative materialism and the associated view that the material brain is just a
neurocomputer.
It appears that Japan was the first to recognize the enormous potential of neural networks, and some European sources claim that this country is already working on a second-generation
neurocomputer.
Hecht-Nielsen
Neurocomputers (San Diego, Calif.) has a line of
neurocomputer coprocessors for machine-vision applications.
SDIO EYES NEURAL NETS...A two-year, 389,000ドル contract to research the uses of neural computers to detect nuclear warheads in space has been awarded by the SDIO to Hecht-Nielsen
Neurocomputer Corp., San Diego.
A "controller" built into the
neurocomputer then determined whether there was significant agreement between the three layers and, if agreement was reached, rendered a response.
Zhukov, "Approaches and methods of learning networks of radial basis functions for solving problems of mathematical physics,"
Neurocomputers: Development, Application, vol.
In this particular feature, FPGA presents advantages over ASIC
neurocomputers because of the decreased hardware cost and circuit development period.
The prototype chip is also a step toward
neurocomputers.
Robert Hecht-Nielsen, inventor of one of the earliest
neurocomputers, defines a neural network as a computing system made up of a number of simple, highly interconnected processing elements which process information by their dynamic state responses to external inputs (Caudill |8~).
Such hybrid machines are indeed beginning to appear under the label of
neurocomputers.