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Are brains working on the bit level? All that aside, how does general cognition emerge from speed? Why hasn't anyone made a "slow" version yet?
by babygoat 9y ago
Are brains working on the bit level?
All that aside, how does general cognition emerge from speed? Why hasn't anyone made a "slow" version yet?
- logicallee 9y agoNo, brains work on the neuron level. We know how many neurons there are (about 100b). The reason I mention the bit level is because if we knew for a fact that the "code" that ran the structure of the brain fit in, say, 64 KB (if we knew this because the whole human genome fit in 64 KB) we would have long-since tried to emulate it. Instead it is "guaranteed" (in a sense) to be a subset of about 700 MB of bits. That's the human source code. It just gives you a sense of the scale of complexity that might be involved there. (700 MB is quite a lot of source code, don't get me wrong.)