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[Minding the Planet] This would imply that there is one neuron, or at least a small group of neurons, in our brains for every unique thing that we know. However, that raises certain questions -- for example, if this is true, then the brain should be a lot larger since there wouldn't be room to represent everything a typical adult knows with unique neurons in that amount of space.
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[Blog.monkeymask.net] the Greater Nomadic Council: Artificial Intelligence Flies Plane: However, individual neurons soon begin to extend microscopic lines toward each other, making connections that represent neural processes. “You see one extend a process, pull it back, extend it out – and it may do that a couple of times, just sampling who’s next to it, until over time the connectivity starts to establish itself,” he said.
[Bodyelectric.blogspot.com] the white papers: stories live from cubicle L23: AI--not American Idol, but artificial intelligence at work. The human nervous system has about 100 billion neurons (brain cells) which interconnect and .
[Upsaid.com] Arsen's Blog : Upsaid Web Journal: Brain reverse engineering field creates biologically inspired models that mimic the brain behaviour using technology such as genetic algorithm and neural nets. As we get more understanding, we will be able to simulate processes take place in the brain, create and recreate digital neurons whose the same properties as biological neurons;
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