Biomimetic codecs and biomimetic coding techniques

A device comprising:

• at least one processor;
• electronic storage encoded with a morphologically-adaptive coding network comprising layers of nodes, the nodes each comprising a plurality of hillocks, the nodes each being created by decomposing test data into spectral components and linking a spectral distribution of the test data within a time constant of each node to a hillock among the plurality of hillocks as features, connections between selected nodes being provided at selected hillocks, the connections based on energy dissipation with respect, to spectral component variation of the test data at least a connection of the connections from each node to a new node being formed based on a new feature and an existing feature of the features;
• and
• at least one non-transitory computer readable medium encoded with instructions which, when executed, cause the device to perform actions comprising:
• receive encoded input data comprising an identification of ending hillocks at last layers of the morphologically-adaptive coding network visited by input data;
• and
• decode the encoded input data using the morphologically-adaptive coding network.