[ExI] mbrains and latency

[spike at rainier66.com]

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From: Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com> 
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>>... Keith does that clear it up at all?

>...No.  I can't make head nor tail of your model...

Long story short: the MSociety model is not analogous to the human brain.  We can imagine nodes which only communicate with about a trillion other nodes right there in its own neighborhood of perhaps a millisecond diameter.  Then there are other trillion-node objects nearby, perhaps a few milliseconds distant.  The entire star doesn't support a single MBrain but rather a huge number of smaller clusters of a trillion nodes.





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>>... If MBrain nodes do some kind of calculation, they could still be very small and resemble dust.

>...Ever seen a photo of a comet tail?  Dust gets blown away by light pressure...

Sure, but comet tail dust is not station keeping.  If these nodes, on the 1 micron scale, reflect light and can orient themselves as needed, they can stay in formation, they can fly away from the host star or towards it.  To drop towards it, the node reflects light in the direction of travel in orbit. 


>...Can't be dust and station-keeping makes no sense.,,

Dust-sized nodes can do station keeping, if they orient themselves with differential reflection.

>...So a medium sized asteroid would provide enough material.

>...Please check math.

Keith
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> spike

Keith your numbers look like they are in agreement with calcs I have done in the past.  I might dig out the old notebooks and look at my previous work once again.

spike