1. A system for the evolution of electronic neural assemblies toward directed goals, comprising: a cortex comprising a fabric of interacting electronic neural nodes; a plurality of sensors, wherein each sensor among said plurality of sensors is bundled together with one another into a plurality of independent channels and projected into said sensory cortex; a reward input output system that receives and processes said sensory data from at least one said sensor among said plurality of sensors, and generates at least one reward signal and broadcasts said at least one reward signal to a multitude of neurons in said cortex; a plurality of motors that interacts with said environment by receiving one or more pulses of fixed width from a subset of cortex neurons among said multitude of neurons in said cortex; and a reward reflex subsystem that takes as input said at least one reward signal and generates as output activations of said plurality of motors.