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Old 20th August 2001 | 12:09
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Grainger
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OK Icarus, that's fine.

The brain/mind does indeed have a prodigious information processing capability - achieved, unlike a computer, by processing many items of information in parallel.

But that definition of 'speed' - as in CPU MHz - is as a rate of information processing, not as distance over time.

So comparing it with the speed of light is meaningless. Same word, two meanings.
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