The Mycelial Reservoir
In the Myceloom framework, specific focus is given to physical reservoirs—specifically, biological ones. Mycelial networks naturally exhibit the properties required for a good reservoir: complex non-linear responses, fading memory (hysteresis), and high dimensionality.
Researchers can treat a living mycelial network as a "black box" computational resource. By stimulating it with input signals (chemical or electrical) and measuring its complex response, the biological network performs the difficult task of transforming data into separable patterns. A simple digital classifier then reads these patterns.
Training the Readout, Not the Brain
This approach bypasses the immense energy cost of "training" a large neural network (backpropagation). Instead of forcing the network to behave in a specific way, we simply observe its rich natural behavior and learn how to interpret it. It is akin to learning to read the ripples in a pond rather than trying to engineer every water molecule's position.