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few things human brains are closer to GPUS than cpus. secondly the human brain is horribly inefficent your visual areas, the areas involved just with seeing take up nearly 15% of your brain. This is just the areas involved with actually seeing none of the concious thoughts you think such as that girl is hot etc.

This mostly because picking out shapes etc in 3D for what is essentially a 2D image recorded by your eyes and transmitted to your brain is so difficult. But still this isnt very impressive it takes a 1/7th of my brain just to see woohoo im so advanced. (lol)

2nd your brain does not THINK. It only computes much like a CPU does but in a very different way and more complex way the code is not binary and the system is adaptive in that certain information sent to a neuron can change the way it will react to information in the future (imagine adaptive transistors in a cpu).

There is no reason that you could not create essentially a human by using CPU's there is no magical "thinking" component that cannot be recreated that would be required. However we are severely lacking the progamming element, I would say that technology is not a major issue the most powerful supercomputers have the computing power to simulate a human being.

Comparing humans to CPU is wrong humans are much more like GPUs just with directx 50 and shader model 532. And as someone already mentioned the human brain is split up into a very large number of CPUs.
 
Reducing perception of reality to mathematical functions is underestimating the importance of the totality of experiencing reality. Sunshine feels good, sex feels great, in ways that are not reducable to math without losing the importance of the whole experience. A computer can compute how much the sunlight has increased temperature, for example, but it cannot experience the feeling that sunlight can inspire in a self aware being. A week old kitten can experience a range of emotions that is still impossible to instill in any amount of hardware, and each kitten in the litter is a unique individual percieving its reality in a different way. No comparison can be drawn between the perception of the totality of reality and machinery merely analyzing information drawn from that reality.
Someone mentioned that people can walk, talk and chew gum at the same time, but the critical difference is that a human will want to chew gum, will want to talk, and will want to walk, whereas the computer controlled robot will have to be programmed to do these things and will not do them of its own accord, nor will it choose peppermint gum over cherry because of its own desires and taste. Merely tasting the gum is beyond the capability of current machinery, and forming impressions of whether peppermint is more to an individual's taste than cherry is probably beyond the scope of math, other than for prediction through analyzing statistics.
I guess the short version is that we are attempting to compare apples and oranges, the computer will win at math, but the human has won the competition before it starts because we can realize the overall importance of the information and whether the math is worth doing or whether we should just go somewhere for a good meal, conversation, and good times while we let the computer crunch the numbers.
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Yeah, this reminds me of Data, the human looking robot on Star Trek, the Next Generation. He could do a lot of things faster and more accurately than any human, yet the one thing he couldn't do was to feel real emotion.
 
Someone mentioned that people can walk, talk and chew gum at the same time, but the critical difference is that a human will want to chew gum, will want to talk, and will want to walk.[/quote]

program a computer like a human so that it can choose any available method to get to its target and it will want to walk, talk, chew gum etc.

for instance i program a computer that likes music. It reads the internet sees a gig on by a band so it walks to the gig because it wants to. But i didn't program it to walk to the show.

Humans are NO different, you like the taste of the gum and want to chew it because it stimulates your taste receptors which are there so you can the quality level of your food wether or not it is poisonous etc. You want to eat because you need to survive, you want to survive because thats essentially what you are programmed to do.

Humans are nothing more than very highly programmed robots there is no magical human function.
 
for instance i program a computer that likes music. It reads the internet sees a gig on by a band so it walks to the gig because it wants to. But i didn't program it to walk to the show.
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This example is self defeating. You said that you program it to do something, so then it does it. It doesn't do it because it wants to, but because you programed it to do that. Besides that, when did it get the legs to "walk to the show", or did you build legs and program their useage into the computer? Even if you did, it would still be doing nothing except what you programed it to do.
 
Nah, I program myself. Self-aware existence is best left to organic beings, machinery should remain machinery. Why would you want to create a robot, do all that programming, only to let it wander around listening to music? Have a kid or two, raise critters, and leave computers to do math, and organic life to frolic as it should, enjoying the feel of the grass and the smell of the world.
I don't see the need to create another form of life when we don't seem to be capable of acting responsibly with most of the currently existing ones.
 
I think until you can calculate Pi to the 1 millionth position in 16 seconds, it's safe to say the CPU is faster. Your brain, however, is 'smarter' :)

It's also safe to say we'll see AI in our lifetime.
 
There are people that can actually read two pages of a book simultaneaously - one page per eye, and still have good comprehension.
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This is incorrect, the field of vision is not split up per eye, but per a single eye.
What you stated would only be possible if the corpus collosum were cut, you split up field of vision to put the two pages on either side (so the left and right hemispheres would each get a different page) and even then the two hemispheres could not communicate and thus you would not be able to comprehend the two readings.

Apparently you're not familiar with the following info:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,,1409903,00.html

http://www.photoreading.com/

When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. The reality of quantum physics.
 
I am not sure how this thread went this long without someone kindly pointing out that you use 100% of your brain.

Look it up before you say something stupid that really doesn't make any sense at all.
 
I can't remember the exact count but I remember discussing in a biology class the massive amount of calculations your brain has to do just to keep you from falling down as you shift your weight from one leg to another. As for speed of circuitry, I think the impulses in your brain travel at just over 200MPH yet the electrons in a processor can travel at hundreds of thousands of miles per minute (close to the speed of light).
 
I can't remember the exact count but I remember discussing in a biology class the massive amount of calculations your brain has to do just to keep you from falling down as you shift your weight from one leg to another. As for speed of circuitry, I think the impulses in your brain travel at just over 200MPH yet the electrons in a processor can travel at hundreds of thousands of miles per minute (close to the speed of light).
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Did you see that recent clip of the Honda robot trying to make it up steps. It fell over on the first one.

:lol:
 
I can't remember the exact count but I remember discussing in a biology class the massive amount of calculations your brain has to do just to keep you from falling down as you shift your weight from one leg to another. As for speed of circuitry, I think the impulses in your brain travel at just over 200MPH yet the electrons in a processor can travel at hundreds of thousands of miles per minute (close to the speed of light).
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I remember watching the sceince behind martial arts and they were saying the nerve impulse travels through your nerves at nearly 600mph.

I don't think the speed of electrons through copper media is near the speed of light, if it was there wouldn't be such a push for photonic computers.

I just feel the brain is more effecient that a cpu. If a cpu runs into a problem what happens? Critical error, terminated threads, locked threads, infinite loops etc etc. If you human braind runs into an issue, assuming the person isn't insane or suffering from a mental illness, the problem usually will get solved, or worked on solving. The brain can even come up with ways to check to see if the partial answer is right for the problem it hasn't figured out yet.
 
Any ideas how I can overclock my brain?
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yes indeed,

www.drinkcocain.com

I lived with this 18 y.o. hottie who was the perfect chick with the exception of a vicious crystal habit. She'd carry around a couple of 8balls just to get her through the weekend. There was one aspect that was amusing though. She'd pack her nose and then she'd vacuum the whole house at a flat run. Damn funny.

I tried real hard to get her into rehab but she refused. She said she loved it, why would she wanna give it up. Poor crazy mixed-up chick... 🙁
 
Carry that thru customs and see what happens.

Customs Officer: Do you have anything to declare? Liquids, fruits, meats?...

You: Yes, I have 3 cases of Cocaine.

Customs Officer: ....In the quiet words of the Virgin Mary, come again?
 
Just read about Anna Nicole Smith's death. A couple of the doctors are guessing that there was a congenital heart defect that may also explain the recent death of her son. Don't know anything for sure. I'm sure there will be lots of news and explainations in the next few days. She was good looking though.
 
Carry that thru customs and see what happens.

Customs Officer: Do you have anything to declare? Liquids, fruits, meats?...

You: Yes, I have 3 cases of Cocaine.

Customs Officer: ....In the quiet words of the Virgin Mary, come again?
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Humm. I think the customs officer might say something a bit different, like "Levenworth or San Quenton?"
 
Just read about Anna Nicole Smith's death. A couple of the doctors are guessing that there was a congenital heart defect that may also explain the recent death of her son. Don't know anything for sure. I'm sure there will be lots of news and explainations in the next few days. She was good looking though.
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ANS was into all sorts of messes with her dead ex's family, lawsuits with TrimSpa, etc. If her heart suddenly gave in, I wouldn't be too sure it wasn't due to some added chemical assistance.
 
Just read about Anna Nicole Smith's death. A couple of the doctors are guessing that there was a congenital heart defect that may also explain the recent death of her son. Don't know anything for sure. I'm sure there will be lots of news and explainations in the next few days. She was good looking though.
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ANS was into all sorts of messes with her dead ex's family, lawsuits with TrimSpa, etc. If her heart suddenly gave in, I wouldn't be too sure it wasn't due to some added chemical assistance.

That could well be. Like I said, we'll be sure to hear more in the next few days.
 
Just read about Anna Nicole Smith's death. A couple of the doctors are guessing that there was a congenital heart defect that may also explain the recent death of her son. Don't know anything for sure. I'm sure there will be lots of news and explainations in the next few days. She was good looking though.
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ANS was into all sorts of messes with her dead ex's family, lawsuits with TrimSpa, etc. If her heart suddenly gave in, I wouldn't be too sure it wasn't due to some added chemical assistance.

That could well be. Like I said, we'll be sure to hear more in the next few days.

She was one killer hottie when she put her mind to it and backed away from the donuts.
 
She was one killer hottie when she put her mind to it and backed away from the donuts.
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That's the truth. But she had way too many problems in life, and like a lot women, had to struggle with the donuts, chocolate, and other such stuff. Life can be bad at times, though, and I know that a chocolate whatever can look mighty tasty when the roof falls in.
 
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