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

Author: Mark Ryan

Date: 14:11:08 06/21/05

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On June 21, 2005 at 09:22:37, Vincent Lejeune wrote:

>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.

I would have to agree with you, just looking at political voting patterns in
Canada :)

>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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