THE BRAIN AS A FUZZY ENGINEERING PROBLEM Fuzzistors: Elastic Links in a Possibilistic Neural Network
Shahram S. Seyed · 1991
A model of a fuzzy-firing neuron, called “fuzzioid,” is proposed. It is a generalization (the fuzzification) of the bina.ry (on or off) model of a neuron. The model is based on a new concept that the firing action in a neuron is fuzzy-there is an intensity (or a degree) of firing. A fuzzy connectionist system as a network of fuzzily interconnected neurons, where each connecting link (axon/dendrite synapse) is modelled by an elastic device called fuzzistor, is also developed. The system’s knowledge of its external world is stored as fuzzistances (connection strengths) among the neurons.