Author: Vincent Lejeune
Date: 14:51:42 06/22/05
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On June 22, 2005 at 15:09:36, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On June 21, 2005 at 17:11:08, Mark Ryan wrote: > >>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 :) > >Vincent couldn't care less, he's from Belgium :) > >In any case you guys are presenting the human brain a tad simple. Sure, I wanted it simple , but for they who want more information about neurons, synpases, axons ... There some well made site http://www.mind.ilstu.edu/curriculum2/neuro/neuron_1.html http://science-education.nih.gov/nihHTML/ose/snapshots/multimedia/ritn/spinal/axon.html http://distance.stcc.edu/AandP/AP/AP1pages/nervssys/unit10/neurons.htm ... The idea of my post is to show that parts of brain are not intelligent but produce something that we name "inteligent". Multiple stupid parts produce something more... > >>>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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