There are billions upon billions of organisms currently living on planet Earth. All of them came into existence through the process known as biological evolution, and all of them are continuously performing information processing or computational tasks. For all practical purposes, these organisms can be regarded as computers. But what exactly is their architecture? Do they follow the classical von Neumann model, or is there something fundamentally different—something we can identify and perhaps use to build better computers? Do they exploit quantum effects or quantum computation, or are such effects irrelevant at the macroscopic scale of individual organisms?
At Artificial Neural Computing, we are developing a new kind of bio-inspired computer by integrating recent advances in physics, biology, and machine learning.