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lapfog_1

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2. neurons are actually pretty slow

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Wed Mar 5, 2025, 11:05 AM

Mar 2025

the distance between them is very small... but the transfer rate is not great.

So as we keep shrinking the size of electronic logic... any advantage of biological process disappears ( well, that is my take on things, I am not a biologist, for the biology part I would talk to my daughter, a PhD candidate in the field of neurology )

BTW, a small groups of electronic transistors that make up today's chips are know collectively as "cells"

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