John VanSickle <evi### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> I seem to recall reading that operating frequency of the human brain is
> on the order of 40Hz.
>
> I wonder how long it would take a human brain to render POV-Ray...

In the cyberpunk classic Neuromancer, from which The Matrix drew/stole many of
its concepts and characters, there's this device, the simstim (simulated
stimulation) by which an AI begins talking to the main character.  The simstim
is used to broadcast some person's senses to other people, i.e. it functions
like a TV broadcast where "viewers" actually get into the "actors" shoes and
hear, see, smell and taste the same the "actor" experiences.  The AI uses it to
build a virtual world out of the memories of the character and talk to him, like
a controlled dream.  The thing is:  the resolution is decided by how much memory
is there to provide it.  At one moment the AI asks the character to look at the
palm of his hands, and he barely can make out the fine lines and rugged
details.  Still, it was far more vivid than the Matrix in the book, which was
full of geometric patterns from early 80's computer imagery...

I think the brain is well capable in this respect of rendering through memories.
:)

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