Re: The Latest Info

From: Grant Callaghan (grantc4@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed 20 Nov 2002 - 15:58:01 GMT

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    The way I see it working, at least in the beginning until computers can really think, is humans being the individual cells in a uber brain and the computers being that connections that store the information for all of us and tie us all into the system. There's even a pretty good URL devoted to it: http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/GBRAINREF.html

    Grant

    >
    >On 11/20/02 00:17, Grant Callaghan said this-
    >
    > >The fastest supercomputers in the world are complete slackers compared
    >with
    > >the processing power of the human brain.
    > >
    > >But that's about to change.
    >
    >"Forty-two? That's all you can come up with after seven and a half
    >million years' work?"
    >
    >I think Joe's comment about the body was the most cogent, here.
    >Implementation.... But I suppose one could make the argument (a la The
    >Colossus Experiment) that humans will be the 'body' of such a computer,
    >after all is said and done.
    >
    >- Wade
    >
    >
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