Solid-state information pattern discriminating switch

A maze-based switch comprising:

• a maze functional block adapted to receive an entered maze pattern, the entered maze pattern including a sequence of T entered maze pattern characters, the maze functional block adapted to receive a directional complement of the entered maze pattern, the directional complement of the entered maze pattern including a sequence of T directional complements of the entered maze pattern characters, the maze functional block adapted to store a sequence of T required maze pattern characters, the maze functional block including a maze power input, a maze power output, and a string of T stages, each stage of the string of T stages including:
• a stage power input;
• a stage power output, the stage power input electrically connected to the maze power input when the stage is a first stage of the string of T stages, the stage power input electrically connected to the stage power output of an immediately previous stage when the stage is not the first stage of the string of T stages, the stage power output electrically connected to the maze power output when the stage is a last stage of the string of T stages;
• wherein the stage power input is electrically connected to the stage power output only when a respective one of the T entered maze pattern characters and a respective one of the directional complements of the T entered maze pattern characters correspond to a respective one of the T required maze pattern characters.