[ExI] mbrains and latency

[spike at rainier66.com]

-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com> 
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> In very general, smaller is better.  As an object scales down, the surface area to volume ratio increases.
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> I wrote earlier about a trillion nodes communicating with others 
> within a millisecond but I meant microsecond...

The microsecond is about 300 meters.  The nanosecond is about 300 mm.

But when I wrote about communications between nodes a millimeter distance, I should have clarified: the Jbrain group of a trillion nodes need not be cubic or spherical.  It could be a bulging disc, a lens-shaped blob with the axis of the lens oriented any which way it wants or is necessary to balance solar energy needs and thermal considerations, including the guys in back.

The Kessler event stuff is only used in small amounts, added to what I think would be mostly carbon and silicon.

In any case, do consider a wide range of possibilities, but recognize that the point of it is not to replicate the working of the human brain.  I think that structure is far too much like an evolutionary kludge that and kinda think.  Or we think it can think (I think.)  I am one who thinks there are better structures for that purpose that we have not yet discovered but we can imagine them, such as the disk-shaped or lens-shaped JBrain with the relative spacing done mostly by electrostatic forces.

spike