Design o Mo e Capable Ne ous Sys ems
A. Chawla
Oc obe 6, 2025
Abs ac
In his no e he au ho discusses he design o neu ons wi h ad anced
classi ica ion abili ies. I migh ha e implica ions o he ea men o
neu ological diso de s.
Conside he highly ci ed wo k o Gidon e . al. [1] which showed ha ce ain
indi idual co ical neu ons can classi y inpu s no no mally sepa able linea ly
due o he p esence o g aded dend i ic ac ion po en ials in con as o he
ypical all-o -none ac ion po en ials. In he p esen no e, he au ho s p opose
ha i he ion channel beha io o he ac i a ion/inac i a ion a iables [4] can
be modi ied such ha nonlinea classi ica ion [2] can be pe o med by a neu-
on, hen his would possibly p o ide a ou e o “ad anced cybe ne ic beings”
capable o highe le els o da a p ocessing/in elligence han no mal humans.
This could be done by gene ic [5] o d ug in e en ions and p o ide ye ano he
pa h o Huxley’s B a e New Wo ld [3] - hough e hical conside a ions would be
pa amoun .
Compu e simula ions and modeling would be he i s s ep in inding he
condi ions on he a iables a he node ha lead o g aded and/o al e na e
ac ion po en ial wa e o ms. T ea ing he designed models as pe cep on-s yle
classi ie s and s udying hei capabili ies beyond linea classi ica ion would be
he nex s ep. Quan um e ec s a he nodal le el which lead o sub le modi-
ica ions in he ac i a ion a iables could also be in es iga ed and modula ed.
Apa om he cu iosi y o no el cybe ne ic [6] beings, hese ou es could lead o
possible ea men s o neu ological diso de s such as au ism and schizoph enia.
Re e ences
[1] Albe Gidon, Timo hy Adam Zolnik, Pawel Fidzinski, Felix Bolduan,
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[2] Simon Haykin. Neu al Ne wo ks and Lea ning Machines, 3/E. Pea son
Educa ion India, 2010.
[3] Aldous Huxley. B a e new wo ld. DigiCa , 2022.
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[4] Se giy Reu skiy, En ico Rossoni, and B unello Ti ozzi. Conduc ion in bun-
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[5] S ephen G Waxman. Ion channels and neu onal dys unc ion in mul iple
scle osis. A chi es o neu ology, 59(9):1377–1380, 2002.
[6] No be Wiene . Cybe ne ics o Con ol and Communica ion in he Animal
and he Machine. MIT p ess, 2019.
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