An article that's not about consciousness (was Re: [sl4] The Jaguar Supercomputer.)

From: Tim Freeman (tim@fungible.com)
Date: Thu Nov 26 2009 - 13:08:37 MST


BillK <pharos@gmail.com> quotes http://www.physorg.com/news177692594.html:
>In fact, the models suggest that counting could be achieved with only
>a few hundred nerve cells and only a few thousand could be enough to
>generate consciousness.

That article is a summary of
http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(09)01597-8, or
if you like PDF you can get it at
http://chittkalab.sbcs.qmul.ac.uk/2009/ChittkaNivenCurrBiol09.pdf.
Neither of those documents contain the string "conscious". I don't
know how it got inserted into the summary.

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Tim Freeman               http://www.fungible.com           tim@fungible.com


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