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Neural modeling is becoming a purely mathematical exercise due mainly to some methodological faults in the steps of modeling. We consider as weak points in the basic strategy of neurocibernetic modeling the wrong selection of description levels, significance tables and formal tools suited to describe the neuronal dynamics.
The antropomorphycal viewpoint is considered and a new theoretical frame (anastomotic net) is included. This frame is general enough to embody non trivial neural processes like co-opertivity. The software description level leads to neuronal computational frames and algorithms. The hardware level consider that among the composition rules used to describe neuronal events also are included instructions of high level programming languages and pragmatic aspects of natural languages.
In caming from anatomy to function we propose the speculative assumption that the topological structure we meet in neural nets can be associated to the control structures in the Bohn-Jacopini sense. As we are drawing a net we are printing the embodied function.
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Mira, J., Delgado, A.E. (1986). On Some Fresh Air in Neural Modeling. In: Trappl, R. (eds) Cybernetics and Systems ’86. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4634-7_40
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