X-Message-Number: 25988 Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 11:00:26 -0400 From: Thomas Donaldson <> Subject: CryoNet #25982 - #25984 To Yvan and Daniel Crevier, re parallel computers: Yes, Yvan, I am perfectly well aware of FPGA based neural networks with over 1000 neurons on a single chip. Etc and Etc. If you can make one with several million so-called neurons on the chip you might get a bit closer. (To call the units on such a chip "neurons" is absurd to begin with). Models of brains can be very useful, but as I ended my message, they should not be confused with real brains. In fact, your tiny FPGA chips just might imitate a single neuron, which gets you into "time-sharing" (though parallel computers DO NOT TIME SHARE at all: all their processors are working at once. That is the point of parallelism). It's not that I insist that a computer work like a brain. I do insist that one capable of BEING a brain have some features allowing it to do what brains do. Your proposals fail on that point, and fail utterly. PERIASTRON has many articles which discuss how BRAINS work, as much as we know of that at present. If you wish to subscribe, you'll be welcome. Best wishes and long long life to all, Thomas Donaldson Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=25988