Processing speed is a necessary but far from sufficient criterion of AGI design. The software engineering aspect is going to be the bigger limitation by far. It is common to speak of the brain as "x neurons and Y synapses" but the truth of it is that there are layers of complexity beneath the synapses. Even more important is the vast heterogeneity between brain regions. Even within cortex regions of similar architechture(and there are many different types of cortex!), the interconnections between regions alone effectively equate to specializied subsystems.
If raw horsepower were the limiting factor, evolution could have easily given us massively homogeneous blobs of neural tissue at a cheap engineering/DNA cost. The fact that evolution uses a diverse and heterogeneous neural architecture tells us above all that it is *necessary*. Long term evolution doesn't do things it doesn't have to. ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?[EMAIL PROTECTED]
