Oh, I agree. The whole thing is silly. I was just trying to specify what the analogy to an EEG would have to be.
N Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ -----Original Message----- From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Marcus G. Daniels Sent: Monday, December 22, 2014 7:06 AM To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' Subject: Re: [FRIAM] [ SPAM ] RE: clinical diagnosis of [a]theism? 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. Marcus ============================================================ 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 ============================================================ 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
