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Re:Is the emergence of life an expected phase transition in ... by eagerpace on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @10:21AM (#39104548)
Perhaps they’ll keep creating smaller transistors and more powerful processors eventually landing on a soft tissue-based version powered by glucose.
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Re:Is the emergence of life an expected phase transition in ... by ben_w on Monday January 29, 2024 @06:08AM (#39175012)
Even back in 2017, transistors were already smaller[0] and faster[1] than biological synapses to the same ratio by which wolves are smaller and faster than the hills they roam around on.

[0] Human synapse size / 2017-transistor size ≅ 1µm / 11nm ≅ wolf body length / a specific hill I was thinking of ≅ 1.6m / 145m [3]

[1] synaptic pulse rate / transistor transition rate ≅ 200 Hz / 30 GHz [2] ≅ 2 cm/year / 25 km/day ≅ speed of continental drift / average daily range of a wolf as a speed [3]

[2] transistors flip significantly faster than overall clock speed

[3] https://kitsunesoftware.wordpress.com/2017/11/26/you-wont-be...

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