Name: Brian Lintz
Status: N/A
Age: N/A
Location: N/A
Country: N/A
Date: Around 1993
Question:
In terms of megahertz, how fast does the human brain operate?
Replies:
This is a tough question. A human brain is much faster than a
super computer at something like visual recognition. It is much slower at math
than a hand calculator because it is built differently. Neural Network
research is starting to look at how the brain works. One of the big
differences is that on a typical computer with linear processors, those
processors do one thing at a time. This allows you to count how much it does
in a second. A typical PC has one processor and a lot of memory. A typical
brain has billions of processors (neurons) and probably very limited formal
memory. (See the response to how many bytes in a brain.)
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