The Largest Cognitive Systems Will be Optoelectronic
The Largest Cognitive Systems Will be Optoelectronic
Electrons and photons offer complimentary strengths for information processing. Photons are excellent for communication, while electrons are superior for computation and memory. Cognition requires distributed computation to be communicated across the system for information integration. We present reasoning from neuroscience, network theory, and device physics supporting the conjecture that large-scale …