Roman V. Shaposhnik writes: > If we were to oversimplify things [then the] brain >is, at its core, limited by a very fundamental biological constraint: >speed at which cells can communicate. A sort of "propagation delay" >if we were to use electronics as an analogy. It seems to be agreed >upon(*) that we can safely assume this constraint to limit our brain >to about couple of hundred of processing steps per second. This is >known as a "100 steps rule".
> Something is really, really wrong with >the computing model we base our technology on, if even the slowest >of the computers we can consider useful required a clock rate >of KHz. Either that or (like some brain scientists say) something is really, really wrong or suboptimal about the human brain.
