[ExI] mbrains and latency

[spike at rainier66.com]

Keith I don't think I ever responded to your comment on latency in Mbrains.

 

My theoretical model of an MBrain does not have nodes that are analogous to
our brain cells.  If I understand it correctly (Billw or someone here might
know this) a neuron has a bunch of branchy synapses coming in and one axon
coming out that either fires or doesn't fire, so it is kinda one-bit output.
But an MBrain node doesn't put out a single pulse and isn't analogous to a
neuron.

 

My notion is that the nodes in an MBrain calculate a lot of stuff and have
an output signal far more complex than one of our neurons.  If so, the
latency between MBrain nodes really isn't that much of a problem, any more
than the latency between two or more people doesn't prevent them from coming
up with ideas between them.  The MBrain isn't really analogous to a single
human brain, but rather a collection of sub-human brains that work together
well.  Perhaps we could call it an MSociety or MSpecies or MIntelligence.

 

Keith does that clear it up at all?

 

If MBrain nodes do some kind of calculation, they could still be very small
and resemble dust.  If created by a nanotech enabled species, a dust-sized
speck of carbon can be imagined capable of some form of calculation and
capable of passing the results of that calculation to its neighbor, which
might be a millimeter distant.  

 

If all that, such an MSpecies might appear to be an oddly-shaped dust cloud
from the point of view of a star 1500 years away.

 

spike

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