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From: Yonderboy@cup.portal.com (Christopher Lee Russell)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,sci.bio,sci.psychology,alt.cyberpunk
Subject: Re: The Bandwidth of the Brain
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Date: 21 Dec 90 18:26:37 GMT
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The oringinal message that started this thread, seemed to be making a somewhat
inncorrect comparison..  It seems to me that the original post was equating 
the bandwidth of the eye/brain interface, but not the brain itself..  For
example one of the messages stated that he thought since the human brain can
only take in foo-bits of information per second that it must be a slow 
computer and therefore could be reproduced on a modern computer.  But I think
this falls apart becuase it is like saying that a vic-20 with a 19.2K baud
modem is a faster computer than a Cray with a 300 baud modem... Sure the 
vic gets the info faster, but the Cray has the storage/memory and the CPU to
really crunch it...   .IMHO.... ....Yonderboy@cup.portal.com

P.S.  This is not even considering the fact that the brain is receiving and 
processing foo-billion inputs from foo-billian nerves and five (or more) 
senses (obviously much subconciously)....