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To: Right Wing Professor

First of all, the brain doesn't work in real time. A modern computer requires synchronous operation on a time scale of nanoseconds. Humans can get by with synchrony a hundred million times slower.<<

Balderdash. If what you said it true, a robot would be running the hundred with the grace of a gazelle. Of course if you redefine real time as instantaneous, nothing is real time. A functional definition of real time is:

re·al-time
adj.

Of or relating to computer systems that update information at the same rate as they receive data, enabling them to direct or control a process such as an automatic pilot.

The brain controls a body in REAL TIME. Here's a comparison you may want to read:

>>What has billions of individual pieces, trillions of connections, weighs about 1.4 kilograms, and works on electrochemical energy? If you guessed a minicomputer, you're wrong. If you guessed the human brain, you're correct! The human brain: a mass of white-pink tissue that allows you to ride a bike, read a book, laugh at a joke, and remember your friend's phone number. And that's just for starters. Your brain controls your emotions, appetite, sleep, heart rate, and breathing. Your brain is who you are and everything you will be.<<

http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/computer.html

You took another bad position perfessor.

LOL

DK

In your computer reference you forgot the various bottlenecks slowing down the process, was that intentional? Oh, also you forgot that the computer is dealing in 1 and 0 only. Oh, and you forgot the complexity of the program of the brain compared to the computer.

GIGO


397 posted on 09/27/2005 8:05:39 PM PDT by Dark Knight
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To: Dark Knight
If what you said it true, a robot would be running the hundred with the grace of a gazelle.

Good point DK.
Or driving the Eisenhower at 80 mph, or a 14 year old Olympic gymnast on the bars, or even a hummingbird flitting about. Even a largemouth bass under the lily pads has more real time processing capability ;)

Wolf
401 posted on 09/27/2005 8:33:05 PM PDT by RunningWolf (U.S. Army Veteran.....75-78)
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