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

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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