X-Message-Number: 14752
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 07:15:34 -0400
From: Thomas Donaldson <>
Subject: once more on brains and computers

Hi everyone!

I guess that my comments about computers attracted lots of people.

About "information": in one sense, even a sequential computer can
deal with very large neural nets. However the larger that this 
neural net is, the harder it becomes for a single computer to 
deal with it in any reasonable time. We are talking about real-time
computing here, not just the derivation of an equation. The fact
that our brains better fit real-time computers is IMPORTANT.

And no existing computer can do what brains do as fast as they
do it. We may even not be assimulable into Turing computers ...
which, I will note, were hardly parallel machines.

		Best wishes and long long life for all,

			Thomas Donaldson

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