Frank's Emails	DATA - travelling axons?
		Re: DATA - travelling axons?
Hi John, I understand webaxons to store the data that get transfered from webneuron to webneuron. If each webneuron uses a axon for storing for example an image (let's say 1Mb, which isn't big for a true color image). Now we have a small weblet which consists of 20 webneurons. each time a webneuron fires the data gets copied to a new axon (This costs time). By the time we get to the last webneuron me have 20*1Mb in memory. My idea of data is that it should't be linked to webneurons staticilly but dynamically: a webaxon just travels from webneuron to webneuron and each neuron modifies it. The overall model would thus become: a map is send (by the user or a webneuron) to data (a webaxon) the webaxon 'travels' from webneuron to webneuron using the map. The map could contain webneurons on other computers, in which case the data will be send to the other computer which modifies it and then send it back (or not depending on the map). This sending of the data could be done using any protocol there is (http ftp or whatever) as long as both computers now that the data which is send has to be processed. (a very simple solution would be to set up a cgi-script on both sides. A way to view those scripts is a receptor model (If this is not clear to you know i will explain it later on maybe a got place would be on the web so I can use pictures more easily). You might be intrested to know that real neuron also use receptors: one neuron produces a chemical (called a neurotransmitter) and excretes this at the synaps the other neuron has a receptor (in fact many receptors for different chemicals) for this chemical. Another way receptors are use are for communication between the brain and other parts of the body: by hormones. This model of receptors could be extended to include not only the communication between computers but also within computers: we could have a web for handling files (a device driver for harddiscs) which has also uses this receptor model. This would mean that you could easily replace a part of the system with another part just make include a receptor for the data travelling in your computer. (the way i like to view this is like a organ transplantation) What do you think of this idea? Regards, Frank ____________________________________________________________ Drs. F.P. Schuurmans CYBER PUBLISHERS frank@bio.vu.nl Amsterdam, The Netherlands