But! Is every neurone an island? What is the cluster ratio? And from that, what is the function it provides? Who/What are the collaborators? Sampo Syreeni wrote: > 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 universityReceived on Thursday, 15 March 2001 08:03:30 UTC
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