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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>On Behalf Of </span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>john clark<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Slow thinking<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>>…</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>On <b>Fri, 9/30/11, Keith Henson <i><<a href="mailto:hkeithhenson@gmail.com">hkeithhenson@gmail.com</a>></i></b> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>"And the point of this 10^15 larger brain that thinks no faster than a<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>human would be?"<span style='color:#1F497D'> Keith</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>>…</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>It would have 10^15 times more memory than a human, and be able to think about 10^15 times more things at the same time than a human<span style='color:#1F497D'>… </span>John K Clark<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I have stayed out of this discussion of latency in an MBrain, but do keep in mind there are a bunch of variations on the MBrain theme which complicate the question of latency vs node size. For instance, we can have an MBrain with SBrains orbiting within: an SBrain is a cluster of a few thousand, a few million or a few billion nodes which co-orbit a common center of mass, while that common center of mass orbits the star. This creates something analogous to a human city or population center, where local latency is very low.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>spike </span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>