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From: zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Sameer Parekh)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,sci.bio,sci.psychology,alt.cyberpunk
Subject: Re: The Bandwidth of the Brain
Message-ID: <1990Dec24.202254.2832@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 24 Dec 90 20:22:54 GMT
References: <37034@cup.portal.com> <1990Dec22.213121.12226@dsd.es.com>
Reply-To: zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Sameer Parekh)
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In article <1990Dec22.213121.12226@dsd.es.com> ddebry%bambam@es.com writes:
>In article <37034@cup.portal.com> mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson) writes:
>>There is a common myth that the brain is capable of enormous computational
>>bandwidth -- for example that the retina sends gigabauds worth of data to
>>the brain.  I believe the computational bandwidth of the brain is quite low,
>>low enough that we could simulate a brain on today's computers if only we knew
>>how to do it.
[Good Explanation deleted]

	I posted the same thing but you were MUCH more effective.
(I said an enitity can only understand something that is lesser than itself.)



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