X-Message-Number: 14752 Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 07:15:34 -0400 From: Thomas Donaldson <> Subject: once more on brains and computers Hi everyone! I guess that my comments about computers attracted lots of people. About "information": in one sense, even a sequential computer can deal with very large neural nets. However the larger that this neural net is, the harder it becomes for a single computer to deal with it in any reasonable time. We are talking about real-time computing here, not just the derivation of an equation. The fact that our brains better fit real-time computers is IMPORTANT. And no existing computer can do what brains do as fast as they do it. We may even not be assimulable into Turing computers ... which, I will note, were hardly parallel machines. Best wishes and long long life for all, Thomas Donaldson Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=14752