[ExI] Kelly's future

[Eugen Leitl]

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 02:33:50PM -0700, Samantha Atkins wrote:

> One problem in a brain emulator that is pretty critical is how to  
> separate all those things laid down by evolution that you do not want,  
> or at least want in a more optimal form, from those you do want.  One  
> problem is that currently it would take a 4GW power plant just to run a  
> cat brain partial emulation.  We need some device breakthroughs like  
> perhaps memristors.

There are many ways to skin the cat. Using a generic machine running
BLAS is about the worst possible way to do it. Integer gas automata
map pretty close to hardware, and of course you can use hybrid systems
as well (Kwabena Boahen, etc.)

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