[extropy-chat] was Re: ANNOUNCE: Extropy Institute's Future, but now tuned back to the usual program

[Alejandro Dubrovsky]

On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 17:10 -0400, Keith Henson wrote:
> .
> I think my contribution to that thread was a criticism that I have never 
> seen answered.  Namely that beyond a certain point, you get less from more 
> since the amount of computation you can do goes up with the cube, but the 
> clock rate has to go down because of speed of light delays.
> 
> Beyond a size that isn't a lot larger than a human head, you are going to 
> get a society of minds or one that thinks very slowly.  But I have never 
> seen an analysis with numbers in it.

Why would synchronicity of the clock determine the process identity?
Chips already in commercial use have section-local clocks (P4 ALU runs
at twice the speed of the rest of the chip) and there's design for
clockless chips.  Would a mind operating on those chips not be one mind
but a society of minds?