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Organic computers, CPU’s that grow and adapt…. :-)

EDIT: after writing this looky what I found on CNET:

IBM experimenting with DNA to build chips

http://www.news.com/IBM-experimenting-with-DNA-to-build-chips/2100-1008_3-6231183.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news

My original POST:

I thought I would blabber a bit… This is for the people who like to ask
questions.. and have a curious mind… :-)

Moore claimed recently that CPU power will reach a barrier in 10-15 years.
Many of you may be aware of "Moore’s law" that he had stated that every 24
months the power of CPU’s (the amount of calculations they would be able to
do) would double.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore’s_law
This barrier Moore says now, would be true if we continue our path in this
direction of technology, which are microchips.
The problems arise are clearly about physics. Transistors are in fact made
of matter, thus atoms,
and through them passes the electric signal that is electromagnetic energy
with the speed of C (light speed). Pushing these chips to go faster produces
more heat, thus we have reached a speed limit of modern CPU at around 5 GHz
and even that is with super cooling.
Many talk about molecular computers or even quantum computers, that seem
very interesting…
But there is another way, the way nature works. If one studies the brain you
will see that it gets its processing power out of slow components (nerve
cells) that however have many connections with each other. Each neuron has
thousands of connections (called dendrites) with others, and all these
together form a "web" or vast cluster.
The number of "possible" connections of these neurons, in each human brain
is more than all the atoms of all the matter in the whole universe. This is
of course the number of POSSIBLE connections and not the true number of
connections in any given time. This is because the brain is not static,
rather it has "brain plasticity" the ability to adapt and learn and change
in real time.
It is my opinion that the new era of computers must follow the structure of
the brain if they want to achieve more processing power. And indeed piece of
the human brain the size of a dime, has more processing power than all the
computers in the world put together.
You may ask if so much power is in one brain why are some people so
stupid?..I believe differently. Each person has infinite POTENTIAL. The
reason why this is not unleashed is a different matter. Why? The answer to
this is not simple and I wont get into that now.. because we are talking
about computers here not humans.
There is another problem here though… what software would be able to
handle this new hardware even if we had it? It will not be a digital
computer.. rather it would be a combination of digital and analog
computer… and this is so new that its hard for people to write code that
would be able to put these neuron nets into function.
There is good news. Single chip CPU are things of the past now. We have 4
core CPU now, and Intel has predicted that in 5 years we will have more than
200 cpu per chip.
The OS’s and programs are NOT built to handle multi CPU very well. In fact
Vista stinks at it big time. Linux is far better .. MS knows this and is
working on this problem because its in our near future.
So the next generation of programs and OS will be able to handle multi core
CPU better, and that’s much like having many nerve cells as cluster in a
small electronic brain. Its a start.
A new generation of robotic scientists now claim that we will have robots
and AI (artificial intelligent computers) that will be comparable to humans
in only 20 years.
I think this is obtainable. Computing power will be infinite very soon….
but it will need some out of the box thinking.
What would this new type of computers be like?
There is a way… for infinity in everything. Infinite bandwidth, processing
power, memory storage, and energy. I believe that it is within the abilty
for humans to reach infinity.
Are you flexible enough to imagine how this would be possible? I know it is
possible.. I’m just fathoming its ramifications.

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Dale Campble
#1. October 18th, 2008, at 10:02 PM.

very interesting article…I’m interested in AI, always have been, hopefully the practical usage of organic computers will be the next step soon.

Trevor Herrera
#2. November 4th, 2008, at 12:18 AM.

this was a very interesting peice of information to read. Although the though of AI still scares me but it would pretty nice to have a computer already check your emial and everything for you in the morning. even better if it made coffie.
heres a question though, Do you think the day will ever come where human brains are fully mechanical? like a computer but just not organic like a real brain.

G Bell
#3. December 9th, 2008, at 4:28 PM.

Interesting article but have to disagree with the notion that a human brain has more “computing power” than a modern day computer processor. In fact the brain cannot handle highly complex problems simultaneously - imagine calculating the square root of two ten digit numbers then at the same time solving other complex problems of an entirely different nature. IT can’t be done! But I do agree that the potential is there, only on the conscious level it is not. So realistically, adaptation of technology to mimick the responses of a neural network such as the human brain would have to encompass the fact that the brain is very inefficient and therefore is not a good model, sadly.

Cutty
#4. February 12th, 2009, at 4:36 PM.

Reply to G Bell…. There are many people who have been able to do math problems with out any conscious effort. Most of our calculation is automatic. Like the

Lorne
#5. February 23rd, 2009, at 12:51 PM.

Not only the fact that there are people that can do complex math “with out any conscious effort” but the human brain does do multiple calculations at once with vision taking up about half the processing capabilities.

chris
#6. March 19th, 2009, at 11:34 PM.

good article!….i actually was google searching this out of curiosity. after watching a tv program about cpu’s made out of virus’s!on the science channel.also,i was reading an article about silvia browne 3yrs ago predicting that most household would obtain an AI or i robot in 20yrs…reading this this article would have me convinced..
isn’t it said that we only use 10% of our brain power!!

Kevin
#7. April 14th, 2009, at 11:54 PM.

We may use only 10% of our brain, but not just for thinking, for seeing, feeling, tasting, smelling, and doing subconcious things like breathing and keeping your heart going. Not to mention all the cells it controls in the healing process. I’m not even going to touch the ability to learn and adapt and change or grow. I believe that if someone could write a program to systematically and efficiently utilize an organic computer then the power and speed of it could be endless. And what we could learn about the human brain in doing so, possibly even unlock the rest of our brain capacity within 25 years, cure disease with a few cells, even escape the need for a conventional body. Radical thinker? Maybe. But it all starts with harnessing the power.

Dom
#8. April 21st, 2009, at 8:37 AM.

I don’t think you know what infinite means.

Pip
#9. May 20th, 2009, at 3:42 PM.

But then the question arises, when does an organic computer stop being a machine and becomes a living entity? it is made up of cells and that is all our brain really is!

yanet
#10. November 6th, 2009, at 8:50 AM.