The Mind Grows Circuits

Scalability Problems of Digital Circuit Evolution: Evolvability and Efficient Designs

A major problem in the evolutionary design of combinational circuits is the problem of scale. This refers to the design of electronic circuits in which the number of gates required to implement the optimal circuit is too high to search the space of all designs in reasonable time, even by evolution. The reason is twofold: firstly, the size of the search space becomes enormous as the number of ga...

Reasoning about logic circuits with independent input errors

Having in mind applications to the design and verification of logic circuits, a complete extension of classical propositional logic is presented for reasoning about circuits with possibly erroneous inputs. The pitfalls of extrapolating classical reasoning to such circuits are extensively illustrated. Redundancy is shown to be effective for improving the reliability of such circuits.

Modeling the Mind: From Circuits to Systems

The Mimetic Origins of Self - Consciousness in Phylo - , Onto - and Robotogenesis

The paper presents and defends the mimetic hypothesis concerning the origin of selfconsciousness in three different kinds of development: hominid evolution, the mind of the child, and the epigenesis of mind within an artificial autonomous system, a robot. The proposed crucial factor for the emergence of self-consciousness is the ability to map between one’s own subjective bodyimage and those of...

Evolutionary Design of Digital Circuits - an Alternate Approach to the Conventional Logic Design

Conventional design is based on top-down method employed by human designers. This kind of design employs a previous experience and a mysterious process of discovery, which originates in the human mind and is often called intuition or creativity. Unfortunately, this previous experience is in fact a collection of rules, concepts, and principles, which is a strong limiting factor in creativity and...