CHIMERA: creating a new generation chip by brain guidance

We present an outline for an adaptive chip architecture, based on general principles of global brain processing. The chip composed of sets of single neurons, which are initially grouped into columns, and these further grouped into modules. The overall architecture of the chip is based on the attention control system of the brain, together with its division into posterior low-level processing and classifying modules (of SOM type) and high-level cognitive modules (of recurrent type). Various balances and neuron complexity is discussed, as further aspects of the processing styles to be used (causal learning laws, salience maps and emotionality, working memory structures, inhibitory competition, neuromodulators).