Re: Intelligence

[Compgo123@xxxxxxx]

>I thought the memory capacity of a brain is much much larger than that of
>a modern computer. Humans cannot memorize 1GB of random bytes. However,
>they can remember thousands of human faces, memories, feelings; even the
>rudimentary behaviour of humans such as walking probably requires lots of
>memory. I'm pretty sure that the memory and deductive capacities of a
>brain is still far greater than that of a computer, although they don't
>work in a similar manner.

Maybe there are some truth in your arguement. But I'd like to point out 
couple counter exmples. A bitmap of a face, let's say, takes 4k bytes. Then a 
thousand faces only take 4 Mbyte. Don't even mention that the computer knows 
the exact distance between eyes on each face. Another example is how many 
people can remeber very words without error in a novel, for example, 'The war 
and the peace'. And how long can he maintain this memory without practicing 
every day? How about 100 novels? It happens occasionally in top pro games 
that one player played a joseki with one move in the wrong order and lose 
couple points. Of course, deduction is a different matter.


Dan Liu