Re: Article: SW = ( SM + SC )

On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, David Allsopp wrote:

>> and each host probably has a
>> lot more processing power than a biological neurone - what's lacking is some
>> interconnectivity. Need I say more?
>
>and various other sites estimate 100 billion (10^12) neurones in the
>human brain, so I don't think we're there yet...

And let's not forget that the information storage capacity is linked more to
the number of synapses than neurones themselves. That number is estimated to
be some three or four orders of magnitude greater still.

Sampo Syreeni <decoy@iki.fi>, aka decoy, student/math/Helsinki university

Received on Thursday, 15 March 2001 07:48:55 UTC