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March 05, 2005

The Bleeding Edge of Computing


Guosong Liu, a neuroscientist at the Picower Center for Learning and Memory at MIT, has unlocked a secret about the computing functions of the human brain.

Whereas computers process information using a binary system of zeros and ones, the neuron, Liu discovered, communicates its electrical signals in trinary code -- using zeros, ones and minus ones. This allows additional interactions to occur during processing; two signals can add together or cancel each other out, or different pieces of information can link up or try to override one another.

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Posted by thinkingmachine at March 5, 2005 03:36 PM

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