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In article <383p39$sp7@cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu> hpm@cs.cmu.edu (Hans Moravec) writes:
>From: hpm@cs.cmu.edu (Hans Moravec)
>Subject: Re: Roger Penrose's New Book (in HTML) 1.0
>Date: 19 Oct 1994 18:38:33 GMT


>sarfatti@ix.netcom.com (Jack Sarfatti):
>>
>>Hans Moravec's book Mind Children estimates that we are analogous to 
>>a100 gigaflop "CPU" (biochip) if the nerve cell firing pattern is the 

>( 10,000 gigaops, actually, but with big error bars! )

No error bars are big enough to bracket your confusion over the relative values
of "pulp fiction" and "mind children!"

;-)




