Aquarium is a possible implementation of a structure which is conceptually one level higher than a neural network, and where the interactions could be more realistically described as Continuous Distributed Processing (CDP) rather than Parallel Distributed Processing (PDP).
The design of extremely fast optical computers would be better approached by reference to a wave interaction architecture of this kind rather than by building clocked discrete element parallel processor arrays.
Recent publications in the area of Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming
show
that purely digital simulations of structures which are related to simplified
forms of
Aquarium demonstrate not only that the inclusion of multiply-structured quality
factors [3] improves the operation of algorithms, but also that in a
large scale
tree structure [4] the major remaining problems appear to be
precisely those
which are addressed by the non-logic-polarised continuously varying nature of
Aquarium.