Fwd: [Haskell-cafe] I read somewhere that for 90% of a wide class of computing problems, you only need 10% of the source code in Haskell, that you would in an imperative language.
May be because consciousness is relatively new and thus, not optimized. Sequentiallity is somehow related with lack of information and lack or resources. There is nothing more sequential than a Turing machine. The Von Newman architecture is designed to make as much as possible with a few more resources. The older parts of the brain are fast and parallel because they have a long history of optimizations by natural selection., The new cortex still struggles, step by step, to deduce new information from the available internal and external information at the pace they arrive. 2009/10/1 Tom Tobin <korpios@korpios.com> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 3:26 AM, Andrew Coppin
<andrewcoppin@btinternet.com> wrote:
It might be a better argument to say that human thinking is fundamentally sequential; parallel computers have been around for a little while now...
Perhaps *conscious* human thinking is sequential — yet our brains are massively parallel processors, and have been around for quite a long time. ;-) _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
On 2009-10-01 18:47 +0200 (Thu), Alberto G. Corona wrote:
May be because consciousness is relatively new and thus, not optimized.
Actually, no; our brains are very, very highly optimized. Only they're optimized for minimum power usage, not making the best decisions. For more information, see Read Montague's _Your Brain Is (Almost) Perfect: How We Make Decisions_. cjs -- Curt Sampson <cjs@starling-software.com> +81 90 7737 2974 Functional programming in all senses of the word: http://www.starling-software.com
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