[ExI] Why space tech isn't cutting edge

Adrian Tymes atymes at gmail.com
Mon Nov 19 21:30:34 UTC 2012


Neurons are not as tiny as modern CPU interconnect
wires, therefore single-atom events aren't nearly so
disruptive.  Being highly parallel helps too.

On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Giovanni Santostasi
<gsantostasi at gmail.com> wrote:
> How the brain does it?
> How do we reboot from such high energy events? Is the brain affected by such
> high energy events?
> Is the brain more stable because of its high parallel architecture?
> Giovanni
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Adrian Tymes <atymes at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Mike Dougherty <msd001 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 2:30 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
>> >> Be aware however that the path to such a
>> >> coating in littered with the corpses of those who have gone before and
>> >> failed.
>> >
>> > Are you available for sweeping the corpses aside?  I'd imagine they
>> > would also greatly impede progress.
>>
>> On the contrary.  When inventing something like this, it can be quite
>> helpful to look at past efforts and understand why they failed: they can
>> often identify non-obvious problems, at the cost of their research
>> funding.  Too bad, so sad for them, but at least subsequent efforts can
>> learn from their fails.
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