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The World Trade Center question falls into a category that mathematicians call "small-world" or "degrees of separation" problems.
Slate Magazine David Plotz 2011
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One brain structure worth replicating in silicon is its “small-world network” of neurons.
World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011
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One brain structure worth replicating in silicon is its “small-world network” of neurons.
World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011
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Original Link: www. newscientist.com/gallery/small-world
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It will have to have a small-world network built into its structure.
World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011
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It will have to have a small-world network built into its structure.
World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011
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Such “small-world networks”—the phrase is now a mathematical term—are ubiquitous in brains.
World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011
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Such “small-world networks”—the phrase is now a mathematical term—are ubiquitous in brains.
World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011
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Like an organic brain, it would have vast amounts of memory organized in small-world networks.
World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011
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Like an organic brain, it would have vast amounts of memory organized in small-world networks.
World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011
oroboros commented on the word small-world
Name of the organization concept in network theory behind the "six degrees of separation" between any two points. Social networks are small-worlds; the organization of the brain is a small-world. Even the English language is a small-world.
More here.
September 24, 2008