Author: Graham Laight
Date: 11:32:30 12/22/99
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On December 22, 1999 at 11:33:20, Georg v. Zimmermann wrote: >[...] > >> >>The human brain has 10^10 nerve cells. Each nerve cell is connected to, on >>average, 10,000 (10^4) other cells. Therefore, there are 10^14 connections in >>the brain. If all this memory were used productively, this would equate to a >>computer with about 10^14 bytes of RAM. > >interesting topic. You sure realize that the human brain is a parallel computer, >_very_ massively so. >I want to see the computer which calculates with its RAM only ;-). > >Regards, >Georg Good point! However, given the extreme technical difficulties of getting a microprocessor to work above 1 Ghz (I remember Bob Hyatt saying that above this you're into radio frequencies in a post once), I strongly suspect that in 10 years time, you won't be asking "What's the clock speed?", but rather "How many processors" when choosing a machine to develop intelligent systems on. Graham
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