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From: "michaelprice" <>
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Subject: Re: CryoNet #24047 - #24053
Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 11:25:11 +0100

Hi Mike, Thomas,
> For Mike Perry:
> 
> Believe it or not, I'm in the middle of a discussion with someone 
> else on neural nets versus brains versus standard computers.

That someone else is me.

> If each connection has a diameter of one nanometer, then each 
> node will have 1 billion such connections, which amounts to an 
> outer area of  (forgetting pi and the outer area of a sphere) about 
>1 meter. 

No, the total area is one billionth of a meter squared.

So such a hardwired construction might be possible.  This is
all academic if it proves easier to simulate a neural network on 
more conventional, though possibly highly parallel, hardware 
platform.

Cheers,
Michael C Price
http://mcp.longevity-report.com
http://www.hedweb.com/manworld.htm

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