The above statement is from Tim Kamsma, mathematician and physicist at Utrecht University. He has only been working on his PhD for a year, but he has already published two publications in a field that did not even exist two years ago: designing computers that work with water and salt, just like our brains.
Brain-inspired computers have been around for a long time – neuromorphic computing, they call it. But they run on ordinary chips made of metal and silicon. Kamsma goes a step further: he tries to make the computer itself ‘fluid’. The salts in the water can have different electrical charges, making signal transfer possible – just like in the brain.
Fluid like our brain
Such a computer currently only exists on paper, but Kamsma does collaborate with a research group in South Korea that actually uses and applies the water-salt channels from his theory. The functioning of these systems appears to comply well with Kamsma’s theories.
2023-07-09 12:03:44
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