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>From: ggraham@utdallas.edu (Gregory S. Graham)
Subject: Re: Simulated Brain
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In article <1992Sep29.225005.4267@usl.edu> mhf4421@usl.edu (Flynn Matthew H) writes:
>erlebach@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Thomas Erlebach) states in
>Message-ID: <1992Sep29.151801.8240@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
>  
>> With computer I mean something like a super-PC: just one CPU and
>> memory and I/O-stuff, no fancy new brain-like architecture, only
>> a hyper-fast version of an 80486 CPU and a hyper-large memory.
>> All you have to do is: Get a model of the brain into the computer
>> (which will be rather difficult, too, but not impossible I think)
>
>
>What on earth makes you think that any algorhythm througha single processor
>is  capable of simulating a brain.   I find there's very little reason that 
>the brain would rely on a single processor, and I think the evidence would 
>show that there is  multiple processing going on all the time in our skulls.
>The concept of a super pc just seems like a romantic notion somehow.
>
>M.H.Flynn
>

I think it can be shown that any multi-processor system can be simulated
on a single processor.  I see a multi-processor solution as merely a method
for making an intelligent system run faster, but I don't see it as essential
to intelligence.
-- 

Greg Graham                                ggraham@utdallas.edu



