Re: Transactions: good or bad?

From: Paul Vernon <paul.vernon_at_ukk.ibmm.comm>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 18:30:34 +0100
Message-ID: <bcq7o8$25mi$1_at_gazette.almaden.ibm.com>


"Costin Cozianu" <c_cozianu_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:bcon23$kt4js$1_at_ID-152540.news.dfncis.de... [snip]
> > It seems you are not very well informed.
> >
> > http://ic.ucsc.edu/~bruceb/psyc123/neuron.html
> >
>
> Great. So you determined that neurons transmit electrical signals.
> That's very fancy. A computer transmits electrical signals better and
> faster, and in learger numbers. Yet no network of transistors is
> remotely capable to do what is trivial for the least capable humans.
>
> Therefore all you said about neurons and computers is nice and dandy ,
> you may call them theories, but they have very little explanation power.
>
> This is most definitely not "we know how neuron works". It is we have a
> scientific theory on "how neurons work", but it's not yet tested that
> much and consequentky we don't really know if that's all there's to it.

Emperor's new mind ?!

;-)

Regards
Paul Vernon
Business Intelligence, IBM Global Services Received on Wed Jun 18 2003 - 19:30:34 CEST

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