INSTRUCTIONS:
Drag your mouse across the black area of the sceen.
Mimetic Memory mimics memory by using principles of neural networks.
When you move your mouse over the screen, you activate "cells". When a
cell is activated, the box around it lights up. This box starts off violet and fades
to blue after your mouse leaves the cell. If you keep your mouse on the cell
for a longer period of time, the box becomes red.
However, the cells can also communicate with each other, just like nerve cells in
the brain. When two cells next to each other are active, the connection between them gets
stronger. The longer these cells are active at the same time, the stronger the bond gets.
Once the bond is strong enough, an activated cell can light up its neighbors (and
its neighbor's neighbors) all by itself. In this way, the cells on the
screen can learn to mimic patterns from your previous mouse movements. However, these
patterns are not stored in any single location. Instead, the information is dispersed throughout
the links between the many cells, just as information is stored in the neural networks. |
