>There is no motivation for a connection between artificial and biological computational networks. Not sure what you mean by "connection", but there is a huge

>There is no motivation for a connection between artificial and biological computational networks. Not sure what you mean by "connection", but there is a huge motivation for understanding the biological. The neocortex is the single best implementation of intelligence we know. You should watch a couple of video talks by Jeff Hawkins which are REALLY convincing. His work on sparse distributed representation is, in my opinion, one of the biggest recent break throughs in artificial intelligence that was directly achieved by researching the neocortex.