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TY - GEN ID - cogprints536 UR - http://cogprints.org/536/ A1 - MacLennan, Bruce J. TI - Field Computation in Natural and Artificial Intelligence Y1 - 1999/04// N2 - We review the concepts of field computation, a model of computation that processes information represented as spatially continuous arrangements of continuous data. We show that many processes in the brain are described usefully as field computation. Throughout we stress the connections between field computation and quantum mechanics, especially including the important role of information fields, which represent by virtue of their form rather than their magnitude. We also show that field computation permits simultaneous nonlinear computation in linear superposition. AV - public KW - field computation KW - continuum computation KW - analog computation KW - quantum computer KW - quantum computation KW - information field KW - information KW - superposition KW - diffusion KW - continuous representation KW - subsymbolic KW - Hilbert space KW - Bohm KW - Hiley KW - Pribram KW - active information KW - computational map KW - cortical map KW - phase KW - phase encoding KW - convolution KW - Gabor KW - wavelet KW - uncertainty principle KW - coherent state KW - quantum mechanics KW - logon KW - multiresolution KW - direction field KW - field computer KW - radial basis function KW - RBF KW - coarse coding KW - pragmatics KW - pragmatic information KW - quantum potential KW - symbol KW - discrete KW - optical computing KW - optical computer KW - molecular computing KW - molecular computer ER -