Re: TECH: Is a human brain or biological neural network superior to a computer or Turing machine?

From: Stathis Papaioannou (stathisp@gmail.com)
Date: Sat Nov 24 2007 - 01:47:42 MST


On 24/11/2007, sl4.20.pris@spamgourmet.com <sl4.20.pris@spamgourmet.com> wrote:
> Is a human brain or biological neural network superior to a computer
> or Turing machine?
>
> Has this question ever been answered? There are some scientists that
> claim that the brain has more power than any Turing machine.
> One example would be the following book:
> Hava T. Siegelmann
> Neural Networks and Analog Computation: Beyond the Turing Limit
>
> http://www.amazon.ca/Neural-Networks-Analog-Computation-Beyond/dp/0817639497

An ideal analogue computer works with real numbers, but there are no
ideal analogue computers in nature. For a start, how can you have
infinite precision in the presence of thermal noise?

-- 
Stathis Papaioannou


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