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The Brain To Squeeze: It sounds like the old chicken and egg quandry. Does thinking inniate pattern firing, or does pattern firing produce thougt? If the former, from where does thought originate? If it's the latter, who begins the thought process? It's to the latter that I posited...

As to mapping the brain... Image mapping of the brain was a key component in developing speech recognition software, according to Microsoft. So it's already been done. My interest is in what we do next. I overheard on CNN that with nanotechnology we could build a cell phone small enough for an...

Thanks for the link. Highly interesting that the writer sets a timetable of only 30 years. I think he's being optimistic, but that's just my opinion. 100 million gigaflops is a measure of quantity, not speed. I still need a confirmation on the brain's signaling speed. Even if we find a...

Fascinating! I would call the "wiring" in the brain associative wiring, which makes sense. Also, thinking about nanite mapping, each individual brain would need to be mapped as we are like snowflakes. But an overall, general map could be acquired, but I wouldn't want it used on my surgery for...

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speed of light From my master (research) notebook: "Scientists have found ways to break the speed limit. In one experiment, published in the May 22 issue of Physical Review Letters, scientists at the Italian National Research Council of Florence shone light beams at a curved mirror. The...

INX990, What source did you use for your facts on the brain's processing speed? In researching my next SF novel, I came across a statement that the brain thinks at 1.25 times the speed of light. As the entire premiss of the book hinges on that fact, I need to be absolutely sure of it's truth. Do...