Re: Conscious of the parts

From: John K Clark (jonkc@att.net)
Date: Wed Aug 30 2006 - 10:09:48 MDT


"Tennessee Leeuwenburg" <tennessee@tennessee.id.au>

> How intelligent does an intelligence need to be before a singularity is
> implied?

Well, the fastest signals in the brain move at about 100 meters a second;
the signals in a AI would move at about 300,000,000 meters a second. I think
a factor of 3,000,000 should do the trick, especially when the components of
the AI are considerably smaller than those in the meat computer.

  John K Clark



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