Nick wrote: "Well, 30 or more tiny fm radios placed at strategic locations around the mother board, might be more like it. No?"
Like if a team of two or three aliens came to watch the Earth from orbit, before there was broadcasting. Relatively speaking, that's how many individual things they'd have to understand if 1 person = 1 neuron (putting aside that each person has 10,000 friends/synapses in this analogy) . I'm claiming it would be much more effective to take 30 people up in their spaceship and study them in detail. Perhaps from orbit they could make a good guess at that, e.g. a president, a popular athlete, a celebrity, several randomly selected people of different races, etc. Marcus ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
