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I think where your analogy breaks down is that unlike computers, distributed computation on human brains scales badly[0], which is why my example limits the com
by bobmichael 5y ago
I think where your analogy breaks down is that unlike computers, distributed computation on human brains scales badly[0], which is why my example limits the community to 10,000.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number
- hirundo 5y agoI don't think that applies, because the size of the network is not limited by the number of connections of a node. If our intelligence were limited by the number of dendrites per neuron, there would be little use for so many more neurons than that.