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From: sylvere@divsun.unige.ch (Silvere Martin-Michiellot)
Subject: Re: Computers Emulating the Brain
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Date: Tue, 21 Feb 1995 12:51:08 GMT
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In article ara@mercury.galstar.com, sferree@galaxy.galstar.com (Steve Ferree) writes:
>Silvere Martin-Michiellot (sylvere@divsun.unige.ch) wrote:
>: In article k3n@netnews.upenn.edu, jmthorne@dolphin.upenn.edu (jmthorne) writes:
>: > The one thing that we may either be missing or taking for granted is that 
>: > a neuron does not need to "directly connected" (Via Dendrite/Axon 
>: > connection) to be stimulated.  It was found that neurons in close 
>: > proximity to each other have direct chemical effects on each other.  This 
>: > provides yet another avenue of information exchange, which is even more 
>: > daunting to produce in modern electronics.
>: > 
>: > 
>: >    Josef
>
>: So what ?
>
>: Ok, it does prove that the models we use for simulating neurons or NN are really different to their brain counterparts.
>: But the problem of simulating parts of the brains (or even building a computer that thinks) remains formally the same.
>
>: So what did you want to show ? 
>
>:  
>
>: Silvere MARTIN-MICHIELLOT
>
>
>Well....., actually one of the problems in motherboard design is keeping 
>crosstalk between seperate circuits limited enough as not to be a 
>problem.  At the frequencies that todays processors and data/address 
>busses run the signals produce radio waves that propogate from circuit to 
>circuit....
>
>Food for thought??
>

OK, see you in 20 years when we better understand how it works in the brain,
how we can use the same principles in the silicium processors :-)

Anyway, I don't think it is directely interesting (for computers) since what
we try to do is avoiding EVERY low level errors to have a perfect deterministic
machine on high levels... Remember the problem Intel had with pentium :-) ?

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