---"Joe E. Dees" <jdees0@students.uwf.edu> wrote:
> Each neuron has up to 40,000 connections with other neurons, and
I cannot improve on the case made by Drexler on this:
Go to:
What parts of his arguments are flawed?
> there are more than 30 billion (not million) of them in a human brain
> weighing approximately 3 1/2 pounds. As complex and miniaturized
> as it already is, and considering that the interaction of genetics
and
> experience has endowed each brain with a unique (although similar)
> connection pattern, the difficulties involved in further shrinking
them
> are daunting, to say the least.
http://www.foresight.org/EOC/EOC_Chapter_5.html
and scroll down about 3/4 of the way.
Joe Jenkins
joe_jenkins@yahoo.com