 have done a bit of work with network models,
that grew out of looking for qualitative dynamic analogues
of Arbib's cooperation models, Grossberg's competition models,
McClelland &amp; Rumelhart's PDP models, just to name the ones that
I can remember.  The data structures in my learning and reasoning
programs were explicitly modeled to imitate &quot;neural growth cones&quot;.
Here is a very primitive example that I used in my Master's work:

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