Re: Transactions: good or bad?

In message <e4330f45.0306141959.24f2d3d3_at_posting.google.com>, Alfredo Novoa <alfredo_at_ncs.es> writes
>Costin Cozianu <c_cozianu_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:<bcfed9$idmcu$1_at_ID-152540.news.dfncis.de>...
>> Alfredo Novoa wrote:
>> <snip ... >
>> > What are neurons if not little computers?
>> >
>>
>> You don't know that they are computers. As a matter of fact now computer
>> has come even remoteyl close to what neurons can do.
>
>A computer can emulate the behavior of a small neuron network without
>any problem.
>
>A neuron has input lines, output lines and a signal processing logic.
>It is an analogic processor.
>
>We know pretty well how a neuron work.

Computer scientists believe they know how neurons work. Neurobiologists know otherwise.

I've done research in neurobiology and I've used modern neural network software. The neural networks that I've seen don't work in the same way that real neurons do. They don't much resemble real networks of neurons.

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