Interaction of cycles

Abstract

We discuss under the McCulloch and Pitts assumptions for neural nets a circuit consisting ofk cycles such that one cycle is activated by an outside stimulus and sends an impulse to a second cycle which in its turn sends an impulse to the next cycle, etc., up to thekth cycle, which sends an impulse to a response. We thus have a “series” ofk cycles “interacting”. We give several theorems regarding the response patterns of such circuits under the additional constraint that the stimulus acts but once, and at the time it acts the circuit is at rest.