
174 Introduction to Soft Computing
billion neurons gives rise to the highly sophisticated, complex, and mysterious phenomenon that we call
‘consciousness’. is chapter provides an overview of the basic concepts of ANNs. Unlike mainstream
computation where information is stored as localized bits, an ANN preserves information as weights of
interconnections among its processing units. us, as in the brain, information in ANNs too resides in
a distributed manner, resulting in greater fault tolerance. Moreover, multiple information may be super-
imposed on the same ANN for storage purpose. We will see that like the human brain, ANNs also per- ...