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While true, the same is also true for many processor architectures. They're not just doing a single mathematical calculation per cycle, and additionally they al
by delecti 8y ago
While true, the same is also true for many processor architectures. They're not just doing a single mathematical calculation per cycle, and additionally they also take multiple bits of input. A 32 bit processor could be thought of as having 32 "dendrites" of input, depending on what specific calculations are being performed to emulate the functions of neurons.
I recognize that the specifics are very different between a single neuron and a single processor, but the processors are so much faster that I'm inclined to give some benefit of the doubt to the people actually in possession of the array of 1M processors.
- yellowapple 8y agoSo I guess by that analogy a neuron is equivalent to a rather slow processor with a 100-kilobit word size?
- Retric 8y agoNo, Dendrites are far more complex than bits. They have multiple chemical pathways and operate in real time. A you can think of a single dendrite as ~1,000 bits of information though it's hard to say how much of that information is useful as it's rather complex chemical signaling. Which gets into why opioids get people high for example.
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