Optical parallel selectionist systems
H. John Caulfield · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 1993
There are at least two major classes of computers in nature and technology: connectionist and selectionist. A subset of connectionist systems (Turing Machines) dominates modern computing, although another subset (Neural Networks) is growing rapidly. Selectionist machines have unique capabilities which should allow them to do truly creative operations. It is possible to make a parallel optical selectionist system using methods describes in this paper.