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Comments on: neuronal connections https://hughmcguire.net/2008/03/02/neuronal-connections/ aging idealist. ai and education, open web, open publishing. Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:35:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Coach https://hughmcguire.net/2008/03/02/neuronal-connections/comment-page-1/#comment-5680 Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:35:42 +0000 https://hughmcguire.net/2008/03/02/neuronal-connections/#comment-5680 Chris and Hugh,

Appreciate the links and I understand the theoretical math. There’s just something intuitively wrong here (and it may just be my “feeble” brain and its anthropomorphic bias). I need to dissect it a bit further. No argument that we have tremendous potential, but the scale suggested is bordering on bizarre. Anyway, thanks much for causing me to pause…for the cause

]]> By: Hugh https://hughmcguire.net/2008/03/02/neuronal-connections/comment-page-1/#comment-5678 Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:17:55 +0000 https://hughmcguire.net/2008/03/02/neuronal-connections/#comment-5678 @coach: it’s bad math following from the edelman statement above. if edelman is correct, the number of potential neural connections is much, much, much bigger in relation to particles than what I stated.

potential neural connections/particles in the universe =

10 followed by 1 million zeros
divided by
10 followed by 79 zeros
=
10 followed by (1 million-79) zeros

note that, even according to edelman’s calcs, the number of potential neural connections probably does not outstrip the number of connections between particles in the universe (but i haven’t done the math).

If you’d like to check out edelman’s work, the quote above appears in:

GM Edelman and G Tononi. 2000. A universe of consciousness: How matter becomes imagination. New York: Basic Books.
http://tinyurl.com/34jzp2

]]> By: Chris Hughes https://hughmcguire.net/2008/03/02/neuronal-connections/comment-page-1/#comment-5677 Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:08:04 +0000 https://hughmcguire.net/2008/03/02/neuronal-connections/#comment-5677 @coach:

http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/1999-01/915377761.Ns.r.html

]]> By: Coach https://hughmcguire.net/2008/03/02/neuronal-connections/comment-page-1/#comment-5675 Mon, 03 Mar 2008 05:16:15 +0000 https://hughmcguire.net/2008/03/02/neuronal-connections/#comment-5675 “So there are roughly 12,500 times more neural circuits in a human brain than there are particles in the universe.”

What a preposterous assertion. Where in the world does this wild-ass number come from??

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