Re: SCOUTED: Science Meets Spirituality, and Wireless Nanotech VR

[Bemmzim]

In a message dated 3/4/2002 12:49:10 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

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.

The neuron can respond in only a binary manner (fire not fire = depolarize  not depolarize) but the number of influences on the state of the neuron are so great that predicting when a neuron would fire and altering the firing potential would be almost impossible. the feedback loops and biochemical interactions are obscenely complicated. About 3 months ago I heard one of the Noble winners from Rockefeller U give an "abbreviated"  review of the neuronal function. Very elegent powerpoint presentation. Within 10 minutes my head was spinning and he had just talked about the complexity of the excitory pathways only mentioning briefly how the inhibitory pathways worked and how each pathway effected each other at mutliple sites along the enzyme chain.