Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!exodus!hanami.Eng.Sun.COM!landman From: landman@hanami.Eng.Sun.COM (Howard A. Landman) Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets Subject: Re: Neuron Digest V6 #66 Message-ID: <3140@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 20 Nov 90 01:30:34 GMT References: <4387.658522484@hplpm.hpl.hp.com> Sender: news@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca. Lines: 18 >From: UAP001%DDOHRZ11.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU, >Date: Tue, 13 Nov 90 16:12:31 +0700 >Think of what (insert name of your favorite intellectual >hero here) did with the available circuits. >It could of course be argued that such exceptions had exceptional >hardware (although there's never been convincing anatomic or histologic >evidence for this). Anyone who's seen (or even read descriptions of) the brain of C.F.Gauss would have strong reason to disagree with this statement. Its cortex had about twice as many folds as that of a "normal" human brain. -- Howard A. Landman landman@eng.sun.com -or- sun!landman