Comments on: Optical waveguide connects semiconductor chips

By: MrFriendly

MrFriendly — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 20:59:08 +0000

Well said, and I agree 100%.

Creating a virtual organism with the complexity of a fruit fly would be incredible, and perhaps with basic quantum computing, it would be possible within a decade or so.

Until then, the OpenWorm project (and others like it) has my attention.

By: melajara

melajara — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 22:43:27 +0000

Good question. I have a feeling it is grossly underestimated (see e.g. recent findings about the brain’s biochemical complexity, multiple unexpected communication pathways, the role of the glial cells etc)

This is IMHO, a very good reason to concentrate for a while on so called “tiny brains”, e.g. insect brains where it is already possible to have complete neuronal and even connectome maps to better assess the true computational power of a biological brain.

By: MrFriendly

MrFriendly — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 18:12:37 +0000

What is the latest estimate of the computational power of a human brain? (Let’s assume an average Joe brain)

By: Gorden Russell

Gorden Russell — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 15:38:51 +0000

This is another step down that road that will give us a processor that equals the power of a human brain. Then robots will be able to do any job.