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I don't disagree that low N studies are useful. But high N studies are also useful. On 12/22/2014 06:06 AM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote: > Nick wrote: > > "Well, 30 or more tiny fm radios placed at strategic locations around the > mother board, might be more like it. No?" > > Like if a team of two or three aliens came to watch the Earth from orbit, > before there was broadcasting. Relatively speaking, that's how many > individual things they'd have to understand if 1 person = 1 neuron (putting > aside that each person has 10,000 friends/synapses in this analogy) . I'm > claiming it would be much more effective to take 30 people up in their > spaceship and study them in detail. Perhaps from orbit they could make a > good guess at that, e.g. a president, a popular athlete, a celebrity, > several randomly selected people of different races, etc. -- ⇒⇐ glen e. p. ropella The shackles of automata will shatter like their bones. ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
