Electrochemically Active Field-Trainable Pattern Recognition Systems

System performance tests have recently been carried out on an experimental electrochemically active/plastic system designed to demonstrate and begin to explore the theoretically predicted phenomenon we call temporally associative "field-trainability," a process which, when perfected and extended, may lead to revolutionary advances in manufacturing ultrahigh-density and highly versatile pattern recognition machines. The first complete experimental system, called-linear field-trainable, (LIFT) consists of two matching but opposing (excitatory/inhibitory) parallel arrays of active/plastic dipoles (iron/gold) in nitric acid, which are stimulated (electrically) in various patterns of activity. and respond by simple parallel coupling through the surrounding fluids and steel container walls to a low-impedance low-pass threshold detector. Alternatively, when desired, the chambers are connected to a power supply, the effect of which is to deliver massive electrical shocks to the entire array at once. The resulting reinforcement field is applied in synchronism with sample input pattern stimulations (which alternate with unreinforced response test stimulations) in attempts to induce at will, in a sequence of small steps, simultaneous changes of fine cellular structure which will produce corresponding specific systemic functional mutations as desired from among the class of linear decision functions.