The Powder Toy

Brain model AI

  • Tractus     13th Mar 2012 Member 0 Permalink
    Quite simply I would like to create a simple brain complete with neurotransmitters in the powder toy. I believe it can be done. Also a working gastrointestinal system. And respiration system, eventually creating an animal.

    Edit: Perpetual motion possible with electonics got a cycling energy cell as the timer for the lungs.
  • The-Fall     13th Mar 2012 Member 0 Permalink
    Go ahead. Try.
  • Swordmaster     13th Mar 2012 Member 0 Permalink
    Interesting...
  • The-Con     13th Mar 2012 Member 0 Permalink
    @Tractus (View Post)
    The brain would have to be extremely simple, right down to repeating timers, or negative/positive feedback systems.
  • SkinnySatinTiger     13th Mar 2012 Member 0 Permalink
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  • The-Con     13th Mar 2012 Member 0 Permalink
    @Ben-Siraphob (View Post)
    I've made things such as that also, including improvements of that very one, however I have made my own.
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    I've made unpublished improvements to that, but have since lost it.
    I don't think the intended brain type structure would be using a random output system. It would have to be a timer system, or at least a system of AND, XOR, OR, NOR, NAND and NXOR gates.
  • jalfor     13th Mar 2012 Member 0 Permalink
    @The-Con (View Post)
    Yours looks the coolest :P

    I myself looked into this at one stage, but frankly, making anything that would do anything remotely interesting is extremely challenging.
  • Synergy     13th Mar 2012 Member 0 Permalink
    Lol at the people that don't actually know what a brain is.

    A brain isn't just a random collection of connecting neurons. Just like a processor isn't just a random collection of connected wires.
  • The-Con     13th Mar 2012 Member 0 Permalink
    @Synergy (View Post)
    Here in the powder toy forum, we only go with what is possible in TPT.
    But I do agree, hypocritically... You wouldn't have a brain if you thought what is being shown here is a representation of a neural network and/or a brain.
    So the point I am not making, is it is socially unacceptable to be a pedant.
  • Synergy     13th Mar 2012 Member 0 Permalink
    You missed what I am saying. No one has reverse engineered the structure of a brain. Hence it is kind of stupid attempting to make something like this in TPT. As I said, random sparks going in random directions does not equate to a neural network.
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