I'd point out that operations like addition have always been mechanical. If a caveman has two rocks in a pile, and three rocks in his hand, and throws them into the pile, he now has five rocks. This is essentially the same thing a computer is doing.
Now, developing the mental model to understand what arithmetic is and how it works: that's intelligence.
In fact, science DOES require belief, which is ironic considering that the default stance of scientific inquiry is skepticism.
The idea that "adopting the scientific method will lead us to a model of the world that more closely resembles the truth" is a philosophy that could be wrong; we all hold on to it with some small degree of faith. How's that for a Socratic notion? We might not actually know anything at all...
Not to say that I don't personally believe in science.;)
Note that you assumed 100 gigabits per square inch. The article clearly says per square centimeter. Despite all this arguement about 2D units being useless anyway, your calculations are necessarily wrong. Good try though.
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I'd point out that operations like addition have always been mechanical. If a caveman has two rocks in a pile, and three rocks in his hand, and throws them into the pile, he now has five rocks. This is essentially the same thing a computer is doing. Now, developing the mental model to understand what arithmetic is and how it works: that's intelligence.
Isn't it 2008 right now?
... welcome our microbial overlords.
Are these transistors comparable to the non-SAND kinds in terms of switching speed, current leakage, and other important properties of a transistor?
In fact, science DOES require belief, which is ironic considering that the default stance of scientific inquiry is skepticism. The idea that "adopting the scientific method will lead us to a model of the world that more closely resembles the truth" is a philosophy that could be wrong; we all hold on to it with some small degree of faith. How's that for a Socratic notion? We might not actually know anything at all... Not to say that I don't personally believe in science. ;)
Note that you assumed 100 gigabits per square inch. The article clearly says per square centimeter. Despite all this arguement about 2D units being useless anyway, your calculations are necessarily wrong. Good try though.