What's the equivalent of our mental processing capacity?

[oiprocs]

How can I find something that compares to our "mental processor"? I don't believe that we all share the same processing speed, so I want to know how to measure this.

 

[RedArmy]

Hold on, let me direct all the AT neurologists to this thread, brb.

 

[Denithor]

IQ test or maybe a reaction speed measurement of some kind.

 

[DisgruntledVirus]

1.21 JIGGAWATTS!!!!

 

[SunnyD]

42.

 

[oiprocs]

Originally posted by: RedArmy
Hold on, let me direct all the AT neurologists to this thread, brb.

K thx bye.

 

[Crono]

You talking about just on a conscious level or fully?

 

[Kirby]

Intel 4004

 

[oiprocs]

Originally posted by: Crono
You talking about just on a conscious level or fully?

Hmm, good question. Both would be nice, but if I can only measure one, then I choose the latter.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

read up on Kurzweil
he gives it some number, i think he has calculated we will reach it pretty soon provided moores law withstands

 

[Kadarin]

If it's early enough in the morning before I've had any caffeine, I'd say a Motorola 6502 is pretty close.

 

[IceBergSLiM]

"My CPU is a neural net processor; a learning computer. "

 

[sandorski]

OurMentalProcessingCapacity = X

Define X, show work.

 

[SonnyDaze]

About a K6-2 350...maybe.

 

[MovingTarget]

Originally posted by: SonnyDaze
About a K6-2 350...maybe.

I certainly hope not. However, it certainly would explain how easy it is to burn my own brain out. I've fried more K6-2s than I've had ISPs over the years.

 

[Drakkon]

http://www.merkle.com/brainLimits.html
The brain runs in parallel keeping system devices functioning (heart, lungs, stomach, kidneys, etc) along with conscious and subconscious thoughts. So saying the brain can do a petaflop or exeflop per second isn't surprising. So figure the equivalent of a Cray XT Jaguar (45,000 quad-core 2.1 GHz AMD Opteron processors that take advantage of 362 terabytes of memory) in your noggin

 

[IceBergSLiM]

100 TB L2 Cache

 

[oiprocs]

Originally posted by: Drakkon
http://www.merkle.com/brainLimits.html
The brain runs in parallel keeping system devices functioning (heart, lungs, stomach, kidneys, etc) along with conscious and subconscious thoughts. So saying the brain can do a petaflop or exeflop per second isn't surprising. So figure the equivalent of a Cray XT Jaguar (45,000 quad-core 2.1 GHz AMD Opteron processors that take advantage of 362 terabytes of memory) in your noggin

Holy fizuckin' shit. What kind of FPS can you get on that?

 

[DisgruntledVirus]

Originally posted by: scorpious

Originally posted by: Drakkon
http://www.merkle.com/brainLimits.html
The brain runs in parallel keeping system devices functioning (heart, lungs, stomach, kidneys, etc) along with conscious and subconscious thoughts. So saying the brain can do a petaflop or exeflop per second isn't surprising. So figure the equivalent of a Cray XT Jaguar (45,000 quad-core 2.1 GHz AMD Opteron processors that take advantage of 362 terabytes of memory) in your noggin

Holy fizuckin' shit. What kind of FPS can you get on that?

Depends.

In CS Source about 0

In whatever program that is coded for it? Depends on the app

 

[SphinxnihpS]

Originally posted by: HardcoreRobot
read up on Kurzweil
he gives it some number, i think he has calculated we will reach it pretty soon provided moores law withstands

He give a good synopsis of what information and knowledge are, and lays out the basic architecture of the brain and how it compares to current machine intelligences, the his most recent book, The Singularity Is Near. It's basically billions of really slow little computers hooked together. He does provide numbers.

Other than that, it may also be the most MINDBLOWING book you ever read.

 

[evident]

intel 80C51