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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
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Date: 22 Dec 90 03:17:21 GMT
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Reply-To: zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Sameer Parekh)
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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.

	I don't think we will be able to learn how to do it.
It is a theory of mine (maybe someone that I unknowingy plagarized from?
If so, sorry.)  That something can only understand something that is less
complex than itself.  Therefore, we can not fully understand how we
work.

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