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Subject: Re: Hydra, Adams, and my old physics professor.

Author: Vincent Lejeune

Date: 06:22:37 06/21/05

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On June 21, 2005 at 03:51:48, Mark Ryan wrote:

>In 1969, my physics professor led our class into a small room where there was a
>time-sharing computer terminal.  The terminal consisted of something that looked
>like a teletype machine, and a printer, and it was hooked up to a mainframe
>computer at some university.
>
>The professor connected to the mainframe, and he started to explain something to
>us.  Suddenly he interrupted himself, and he said, "You need to understand
>something about computers:  they are as fast as lightning, and they have a
>wonderful memory, but they are as stupid as all hell."

You need to understand something about human brains : they composed by a large
number of synapse (10^11), they have a lot (1000 to 10000) connexions to each
other (1000 to 10000), but they are stupid as hell.

What do this prove ?

:o)

I very like description of the human brain (simplified here).

There's no clear, definition of intelligence, all experts have differents
opinions ...



>
>!!!!!
>
>Go, Adams.



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