> From: Erik Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 12:17:35AM -0600, The Fool wrote: > > I doubt their calcutions for human brain processing power are correct. > > Their calculations are in the right ballpark; definitely they aren't > clearly incorrect. Here's a message Bob Chassell posted in 1999 that > gives a good background:
A human mind isn't strictly sequential, like these kinds of computers are. Even using thousands of processors, they are really only solving sequential problems. A human mind is massively parallel processing. "10^11 neurons. Each neuron has about 5*10^3 synapses" Which comes out to about (5*10^14)! pathways. (this is an astronomical number, much larger than the projected # of subatomic particles in the universe). Imagine for a second an internet where each node transmitted at the same speed, and each node was connected to not 1 other node, but 5 to 10 thousand nodes (like five to ten thousand individual fibre optic cables per node. <el snippo> _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
