On 22-4-2010 21:34, Darren New wrote:
> andrel wrote:
>> isn't the estimated clock frequency of a human brain in the order of 
>> 100Hz?
> 
> The human brain doesn't have a clock frequency.  That's approx the 
> firing rate of a neuron, tho.
> 
There have been asynchronous microprocessors, people also specify a 
'clock'-rate for those.

I know that eventhough a single neuron fires maximally in that order of 
magnitude you need a much smaller timescale to simulate a brain. But 
explaining that is not as funny.

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