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Re: An Idea for new Mindstorms - event potential?
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Sun, 3 Jul 2005 05:16:06 GMT
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dan miller <DANBMIL99@avoidspamYAHOO.COM>
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> Don't be too hard on the fly's brain. A housefly has about a third of a
> million neurons.
I've been interested in estimates of insect (& arachnid) brain power for
some time, with neuron counts, up-to-date analysis of cognitive abilities,
etc. For some reason I've found this material hard to find online. Any
references would be greatly appreciated - dan
> If you think of a neuron as being about the power of a transistor - then
> there is a computer that's more complex than a 386 - but less complex
> than
> a 486.
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> If you think of a neuron as being an entire logic gate (which is probably
> closer
> to the truth), then the raw part count is about as powerful as an early
> Pentium.
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> Neurons are slower than computer logic gates - but that's more than
> compensated
> for by the enormous degree of connectivity and parallelism in an animal
> brain.
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> Overall, a common housefly probably has more available compute power than
> a modern desktop PC.
>
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> WOOOWW!!! I'll be paying a lot more attention to flies after reading this!
> I can barely wait to see a blue screen on a fly ;) do flies have
> ctrl+alt+del ? ;)
> keep posting about the flies... ;) i'm really interested! i'm taking
> biology
> next year... =P
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| (...) Human brain: 100,000,000,000 neurons. Bee brain: 1,000,000 neurons. Housefly: 300,000 neurons. Fruitfly: 400 neurons. Nematode: 100 neurons. Sea slug 7 neurons. The housefly is actually suprisingly smart for the insect world. I found somewhere (...) (19 years ago, 3-Jul-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Citando Steve Baker <sjbaker1@airmail.net>: Justin wrote: > A fly can land on the ceiling not > because it is smart (it isn't), but because it's body is built such that the > laws of physics themselves automate a process that would be prohibitively (...) (19 years ago, 28-Jun-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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