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Subject: Re: brain, a parallel processor ?
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Date: Thu, 2-Feb-84 17:40:23 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  2 17:40:23 1984
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	If the brain was a serial processor, the limiting processing speed
would be the speed that neurons conduct signals. Humans, however, do
very complex processing in real time! The other possibility is that the
data structures of the brain are HIGHLY optimized.
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				Alex S. Fuss
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