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From: cam@aipna.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: The bandwidth limitation (was: Re: How much info can the brain hold?)
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Date: 5 Dec 90 11:58:05 GMT
References: <11941@hubcap.clemson.edu> <7492@hub.ucsb.edu> <3415@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU> <7988@uwm.edu> <4208@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
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In article <4208@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> minsky@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Marvin Minsky) writes:

>Kandel and Schwartz point out that there are between 1000
>and 10000 different TYPES of neurons in the mammalian brain.  Makes
>one think, doesn't it.

Well, that's the current working hypothesis :-)
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Chris Malcolm    cam@uk.ac.ed.aipna   +44 31 667 1011 x2550
Department of Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh University
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