X-Message-Number: 18587 From: Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 04:41:06 EST Subject: Re: CryoNet #18575 Twist and turn in the near future --part1_164.9031612.29a22632_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Dans un e-mail dat du 17/02/02 11:01:06 Paris, Madrid, a crit : 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. --part1_164.9031612.29a22632_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="ISO-8859-1" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=18587