A changing physical substrate as part of search

Can the changing physical state of a computing substrate participate in search rather than merely corrupt it?

Formülasyon

Explore memristive and fractal layouts in which conductance history, heat, noise, and parallel arrival times may affect the next search step; compare this with efforts to linearize the same hardware.

Gerilim

The same state change can be useful adaptation or a corruption of the result.

Açık soru

What task and measurement distinguish useful exploration from uncontrolled error?