[ExI] simulation

hkhenson hkhenson at rogers.com
Mon Dec 17 13:00:29 UTC 2007


At 08:33 PM 12/16/2007, you wrote:

>On Dec 15, 2007, at 8:53 AM, Bryan Bishop wrote:
>
> > On Thursday 29 November 2007, hkhenson wrote:
> >> To scope the problem, the area of the brain surface is about quarter
> >> of a square meter, the cortical columns are spaced about 0.03 mm in a
> >> hexagonal array.  Figure about a thousand of them to the sq mm. There
> >> are a million sq mm to a sq m. So if you had 250 H+ programmers, each
> >> of them would have to be managing a million cortical column
> >> simulations.
>
>How complex is a simulation of a single cortical column?  Sorry if I
>missed that critical bit of information.

I don't know, but it's been done and reported on.

Keith 




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