The functional unit of the cerebral cortex is the cortical column.
A cortical column is roughly .5-.6 mm in diameter. (lets say that 4 can
fit in a square mm).
The cerebral cortex is around the size of four sheets of regular paper.
Lets say the paper is 216x280 = 60,480 square milimeters.
The
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
Kevin,
About mind=brain ...
My own view of that elusive entity, “mind is well-articulated in terms of
the philosophy of Charles S. Peirce, who considered there to be several
different levels on which mind could be separately considered. Peirce used
three levels, but inspired by Jung and
Kevin,
You raise a critical point, and my thinking on this point is a bit
unorthodox, as well as incomplete...
There is a big unanswered question close to the heart of my theory of mind,
and this is the connection between Firstness and Fourthness. I sum up this
question with the Orwell
For instance, in relation to memory capacity. let's say I could live
for the age of the universe, roughly 15 billion years. I believe the
human mind(without enhancement of any kind) is capable of remembering
every detail of every day for that entire lifespan.
That is contrary to actual
Ben,
As always, thanks for the well thought out reply...I am glad you could make
some sense of my ramblings...
Just a couple thoughts..
In relation to the subtle consciousness, or store consciousness, I believe
it interpenetrates all things equally. So to speak of more or less
conscious, from
For instance, in relation to memory capacity. let's say I could live
for the age of the universe, roughly 15 billion years. I believe the
human mind(without enhancement of any kind) is capable of remembering
every detail of every day for that entire lifespan.
That is contrary to
Kevin wrote:
I will go as far to say that any computer system we develop, even one
that realizes all the promises of the singularity, can only match the
capacity of the human Mind. Why? Because the universe is the Mind
itself, and the computational capacity of the universe is rather
Kevin wrote:
I think Ben is closer to
anyone in having a true mapping of the
brain and its capabilities. As to whether it ultimately develops the
emergent qualities we speak of..time will tell...even
if it falls short of singularity type hype, i believe it can provide
tremendous benefits
Boy, I opened a can of worms.. here goes...
Kevin wrote:
I will go as far to say that any computer system we develop, even one
that realizes all the promises of the singularity, can only match the
capacity of the human Mind. Why? Because the universe is the Mind
itself, and the
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