> From: Richard Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The Fool said: > > > By 2015 a typical Beowulf supercomputer will probably process at the > > same bitrate as the human mind. > > This very much depends on how much computation a human brain does, and > that in turn depends on how much a single neuron does. My cognitive > scientist friends tell me that nobody really knows at the moment. In > any case, my guess and your guess differ only by ten years, or 6 2/3 > Moore periods, or a factor of 100. That's not really a very big error. > And even if I'm being optimistic by a factor of a hundred and you by a > factor of ten thousand, that still means we can expect supercomputers > powerful enough to simulate a human brain by 2035. That's not so far > away.
Processing at the same bitrate and simulate the human mind are different things. What they have to do to simulate a human mind is to simulate it's, connectivity, its network. Each Neuron has up to something like thousands of different connections. In whole the human brain has more possible connections then there are sub-atomic particles in the universe. > Oh, and thanks for the link - it looks very interesting. The real interesting bit is that the singularity theory is one of the better explanations for Fermi's paradox.
