Bio-Neural Circuit

Computer processor based on biological components, also referred to as gel packs. Bioneural circuits are employed in the most recent Federation starships, such as the Sovereign and Intrepid classes. Starfleet uses the original human brain structures in the form of bioneural circuits instead of just imitating them with microelectronic (or isolinear) technology. The gel packs containing biological components, however, they may be infected by viruses or bacteria. Real world neural networks are (still) silicon-based and have limited capabilities. Despite their fair performance in recognition and association tasks, they are still far from competing with the human brain.