Alan The next question is: What's your corresponding estimate of processing power?
To emulate the massively parallel "information update rate" of the brain on N bits of memory, how many commodity PC processors are required per GB of RAM? Ben G > Ben Goertzel wrote: > > A short, interesting article on the information capacity of the brain > > was written by nanotechnologist Ralph Merkle; see > > > http://www.merkle.com/humanMemory.html > > > He gives figures between 10^9 bits and 10^15 bits. > > [ The upper bound, which in my oppinion is unrealistic, that I gave in > my orrigional post was 1.6*10^10 bits. (8*2gb).] > > Yes, I am aware of those results. His information is based on counting > synapses. -- I just re-read it... It seems my numbers aren't off base at > all. What it means is that we are in the 'singularity window' _NOW_. > > To continue the line of thought: > > Lets say that the information content of the output of a cortical column > can be expressed in firings / EEG period. The wakefull frequency is > around 30hz. A neuron can fire as fast as 1khz. Doing the division > yields an output capacity of 33 1/3 bits/EEG cycle. (it is probable that > there are secondary IO channels for each cortical column). > > -- > pain (n): see Linux. > http://users.rcn.com/alangrimes/ > > ------- > To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate > your subscription, > please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?[EMAIL PROTECTED]
