Networked computation

Everyone has heard the term "neurocomputation" - referring to an artificial brain made from artificial, electronic neurons.

I deal with a form of computation that may - or may not - have anything to do with the way a natural brain works. It is simply, network computation. This means that any artificial neural network is a stretch. It is simply an artificial computational network, and that probably has nothing to do with thinking at all.

That doesn't mean that pattern recognition and sophisticated functions are beyond the range of network computation, it isn't. In fact, very sophistical physical, logical and mathematical manipulations are possible. But every time I try and tell people about my work, they leap to a science-fiction induced fantasy about artificial "brains".

Pardon me. Thinking is not coherently congruent with computation. There. I said it.