Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site bcsaic.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!fluke!ssc-vax!bcsaic!michaelm From: michaelm@bcsaic.UUCP (michael b maxwell) Newsgroups: net.philosophy,net.math,net.physics Subject: Re: Mind as Turing Machine: a proof *and* a disproof! Message-ID: <367@bcsaic.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Nov-85 12:50:47 EST Article-I.D.: bcsaic.367 Posted: Thu Nov 7 12:50:47 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Nov-85 08:16:49 EST References: <1996@umcp-cs.UUCP> <667@hwcs.UUCP> <2031@umcp-cs.UUCP> <509@klipper.UUCP> <1096@jhunix.UUCP> <1637@uwmacc.UUCP> Reply-To: michaelm@bcsaic.UUCP (michael b maxwell) Organization: Boeing Computer Services AI Center, Seattle Lines: 11 Keywords: minds, Turing machines Xref: watmath net.philosophy:3069 net.math:2494 net.physics:3518 Summary: In article <1637@uwmacc.UUCP> edwards@uwmacc.UUCP (mark edwards) writes: >...Scientific America says that there are 10 to the 10 or 11 neurons in >the brain. If only a tenth of these are used... Wonder where the idea ever came from that we use only 1/10th. of our brain? How could anyone possibly know? And *if* the brain uses holographic storage, does the concept of how much of the brain is used even have meaning? -- Mike Maxwell Boeing Artificial Intelligence Center ...uw-beaver!uw-june!bcsaic!michaelm