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Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 17:23:32 EST
Subject: Re: CryoNet #18575 Twist and turn in the near future  

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Dans un e-mail dat  du 17/02/02 11:01:06 Paris, Madrid, 
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From:  (Jim hughes)

> .  All cyronic facilities need to be not only self sustaining, but  
> "unpluged" from the inevitable computational singularity.  I'm not sure how 
> far in the future this can happen, but it will happen so fast we won't be 
> able to react as it occurs.
> Just a thought.
> Jim hughes, MD PhD

Each neuron needs 10 000 operation on 64 bits per second for a fairly good 
simulation. If there are 10 billions neurons in a brain, we need a computer 
able to process 10^14 operations per second. Present day processor have a 
capacity in the 100 millions op. per second. The shortfall is a factor in the 
10^6 range. Given the Moore's law, we get to the break even in 30 years.

Y. Bozzonetti.


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