Artificial Neurons and Neural Nets Click on these words for instructions concerning the use of this document. Bibliography Some required readings are found here, so do look through this. The motivation for doing this varies from person to person.
Some people use neural computing as a way to examine real neural systems.
The real systems tend to be very large and complicated, with millions of interrelated neurons. Real neurons are so small and delicate that it is difficult to isolate them for study. Individual tasks done by real neural systems are often distributed in unknown ways throughout the entire system in such a fashion that it is almost impossible to tell which neurons are participating in the task and which are not. There are also legal and ethical problems involved in the study of living animal neural systems that make such research awkward. We cannot, for example, remove bits of a living human bain in order to see what functions of speech or cognition stop working.