Re:Sequoia: 20 Petaflops, 1.6 million cores, 1.6 Petabytes RAM
by anamax on Friday February 06, 2009 @03:42PM
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> The human brain is quite "infinitely" interconnected, and this is something which not only would be really, really hard to solve with a physical machine: it's simply impossible.
Hmm. How does this "infinitely interconnected" thing work if not by physical means? (In physical, I include electromagnetic waves without a dedicated conductor, not just "wires".)
Re:Sequoia: 20 Petaflops, 1.6 million cores, 1.6 Petabytes RAM
by lst on Friday February 06, 2009 @04:03PM
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Yes, you are always free to misunderstand.
The interesting thing is: some do, some do not.
(We have physics, chemistry, and others, exactly to distinguish different levels...)
Re:Sequoia: 20 Petaflops, 1.6 million cores, 1.6 Petabytes RAM
by anamax on Friday February 06, 2009 @08:09PM
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I understood you to say that parts in the brain communicate by something other than physical means. Is that where I went wrong?
If some of the communications are not by physical means, how does the "not physical means" communication work?
If all of the communications are by physical means, how does the brain have "infinite" interconnect? Am I wrong in believing that one can't have infinite connectivity with physical means?
The human brain is quite "infinitely" interconnected, and this is something which not only would be really, really hard to solve with a physical machine: it's simply impossible.
I understand the fascination of a real super computer, but it's simply nothing compared to a single human brain...