Message-Id: <199910061401.KAA00265@smtp10.atl.mindspring.net>
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 10:09:34 -0400
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
From: bbenzon@mindspring.com (Bill Benzon)
Subject: Re: implied or inferred memes
>Bill,
>
>>Well Mark, yes, you're getting there. However, I'm not, in fact that
>>pessimistic. We can do more than count synapses. In the long run I don't
>>think we're going to understand the human mind/brain until we can construct
>>computer simulations on machines with, shall we say, processing capacity
>>within an order of magnitude of what the brain has. We don't have that
>>yet.
>
>Limitations in computing power will be overcome.
Yes, they will. But we can't stop thinking until that happens.
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