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>From: mhf4421@usl.edu (Flynn Matthew H)
Subject: Re: Simulated Brain
Message-ID: <1992Sep29.225005.4267@usl.edu>
Organization: University of Southwestern Louisiana
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Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 22:50:05 GMT

erlebach@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Thomas Erlebach) states in
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> Of course both of them are not available now, but I don't think
> there is any reason why it should be impossible to have them in
> the future. Anyway, this is just a thought experiment for now.
> 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



