README.md

Neural Webs

An exploration of adding biologically informed behaviors to artificial neural networks

Neurons

Composed of organelles that simulate biological actions, each neuron has a spatial position. New connections are created and old connections severed based on the positional data of each neuron. (closer = greater likelhood to connect. Further = greater likelihood to sever)

During the update process, positions are also updated based on proximity, connection / activation strength via the Soma, and a generalized localized error (TBD).

Organelles

• Neurons (container)
• Soma (gating incoming signals)
  • (TBD?) Somatic Attention - (learnable attention mechanism via ROPE and attention)
  • OR - relying on gating in the spiking membrane to push activation signal over time?
• Nucleus (positional)
• Membrane (Threshold and behavior) spiking membrane - gating outgoing signals and "firing" the neuron
• Dendrites - (Connections and Weights) Individual connections to other Neurons

Visuals & Diagrams

https://mermaid.js.org/config/Tutorials.html

mindmap;
    Signal_X
        Neuron
            <b>Somatic Gate</b> <br> "Hardening" of receptors per entry connection 
                <b>Spiking_Membrane</b> <br> "potential energy" stored in the membrane
                    <b>Threshold</b> <br> cell-level activation if pot-energy thresh is reached
                <b>Dendritic Connections </b> <br> energy leavers through dendritic connections
                    signal_x • dendritic_W
                        --> outbound signal
        Local Error is calculated to update membranes

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