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James!: Kill all humans.

I was having the most wonderful dream...

The idea that the brain only holds 227 megabytes of information is not really a very accurate statement. It may hold that amount of raw facts but the system itself, including memory, thought, emotion, training, etc is considerably more than that.

We can't even accurately simulate an insect's brain in a computer because of the complexity.

Human Error: James!: Kill all humans.

I was having the most wonderful dream...

"hey baby, how'd you like to kill all humans?"

Good luck on the robot reservation suckers. We won't honor those bogus treaties.

Go so fast it looks slow.

vodka: The idea that the brain only holds 227 megabytes of information is not really a very accurate statement. It may hold that amount of raw facts but the system itself, including memory, thought, emotion, training, etc is considerably more than that.

We can't even accurately simulate an insect's brain in a computer because of the complexity.

I came in here to pretty much say this. Part of the problem in the brain is that we're not exactly sure how to define what's "information" and what isn't. And I'm not sure I've ever met anyone who could figure out how many "raw facts" a person knows anyway, much less how they're stored in the brain.

Plus, their estimates seem to be based on the assumption that people take in one byte of information per second. If you want to record all the information we process from our senses, which seems to be what they're assuming, this is patently ludicrous. The most recent estimate I can recall for the number of axons in each optic nerve was on average around 1.2 million. Each one of those seems to encode information based on a continuously variable rate of firing, so even if we were to use just one byte to encode the firing rate (which is oversimplifying it), that's at least 1.144megabytes to capture the input of a moment in one eye. Also, we interpret changes in these firing rates far more often than once a second...we don't really do "frames" like a video camera, but it's hopefully not ridiculously off to say that the retinal photoreceptors have a window of integration on the order of 50-100ms. If we take the upper bound of that, we're now at 11.444 megabytes per second. Assuming the same lifespan they do, that's not 2 gigabytes, that's 23.022 petabytes.

And that's just for one of your eyes.

This also doesn't take into account the fact that your brain is very good at creating "derived" information, like working out 3D depth based on the difference between the two eyes, or figuring out the velocity and direction of motion when an object changes position - or for that matter figuring out what the edges of an object are. You'd really only be recording the raw input, not any of the "experience" that results from actually processing it with your brain.

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Good luck on the robot reservation suckers. We won't honor those bogus treaties.

Yeah but we'll have the strength of 5 gorillas

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Is she involved?

/obscure?

Came for this, leaving satisfied.

I didn't ask for this.

"Neuro-Humanities Entanglement Conference" would NOT make a good name for a rock band.

coco ebert: /obscure?

Not to me -- you beat me to it.

Um,

Make peace for the human beings.

;)

Came for Red Dwarf and Ghost in the Shell. Leaving happy

...has a few ideas

I'd find a way to get rid of Nightwing so I could bang Starfire instead. Hubba hubba!

LewDux: Link

I REALLY liked this!

Okieboy: Call back the aliens that created all these fleshy computers here on earth and see if we can get some udpates...


/would like a better exhaust system

Maybe you should think about that the next time you buy mousetraps.

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Good luck on the robot reservation suckers. We won't honor those bogus treaties.

THIS

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I came here to post it. Well done sir.

on the road: coco ebert: /obscure?

Not to me -- you beat me to it.

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Tis what I was hoping to see!
/Wait a minute...
//Charging