Re: More on human brain vs computer metaphor...

From: Artillo5@cs.com
Date: Tue May 07 2002 - 21:24:34 MDT


In a message dated 5/7/2002 6:43:17 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
ypprotection@yahoo.com writes:

> The whole concept of threading is beyond
> nature. Is there anything in nature capable of
> multithreading. All human beings are singly
> threaded. We live life over a single thread.
> We can NEVER do two things at the same time
> at any given time.

Can't you walk and chew gum? LOL But seriously, multithreading? Guess it
depends on your definition... do you mean the flow of portions of data
through several channels at once? Are Human brains wired in series neuron to
neuron, or massively parallel? I would think definitely parallel processing
of some sort whether we are either talking about unconscious or conscious
processes.

Brian



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