<div class="gmail_quote">On 1 October 2011 01:04, Keith Henson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hkeithhenson@gmail.com">hkeithhenson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
And the point of this 10^15 larger brain that thinks no faster than a<br>
human would be?<br></blockquote></div><br>If M-brains are ultimately... brains, what else is new?<br><br>Our tech is already going from (relatively) low-latency, high-frequency, broad-bandwith, closely knit systems to systems much more similar to biological nervous systems, that is (relatively) low-frequency, high-latency, narrow-bandwith systems but with increasing parallelism and redundancy and architectural complexity.<br>
<br>Since I still do not have my 10Ghz processor under my desk extrapolated in the nineties, I suspect this to be a generalised trend, but at the other extreme one should consider that the most powerful "computer" today in use is probably Folding@Home, where processes easily take weeks to speak with one another.<br>
<br>I would say that if we also end up switching from silicon to... carbon (as in biochips, microtubules, etc.), this is really wet transhumanism coming back with a revenge. :-)<br><br>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>