can usually only come up with say ten or fifteen
options, variations of the theme, of how you may solve
your particular crisis. Many of those options aren't even
viable, but because you're pressed, you consider them
anyway. When you enlist the aid of the biocomputer to
do your problem solving, you have at your disposal
two computers functioning in totally different manners,
tapping into two hundred billion bits of information in
the form of neurons.
Imagine if you had a Rolodex full of words and a
Rolodex full of pictures. These Rolodex's were not full
of telephone numbers and addresses but they were full
of one thing only. The left Rolodex has in it a complete
description of your dream house and of course it has
your complete language in it. Everything you've ever
heard or said or thought in words is in that Rolodex. In
the Rolodex on the right is a picture of your dream'
house and of course millions upon millions of other
pictures, of all the things that you have ever done, all
the things you have ever seen and all, the things that
you have even thought of in pictures. These Rolodex's
are next to one another and would you believe they are
both joined together by a connecting link and the two
Rolodex's can communicate with one another. As they
communicate with one another they swap words and
pictures and sort out all the different permutations of
how to get you your dream house by matching various
words with various pictures; the whole idea is to come
up with a workable solution for you. That may be a way
you can get a handle on what we are talking about.
Let's look at it another way. Say you have two IBM
computers, one programmed with hundreds of millions
of words and the other one programmed with hundreds
of millions of pictures and these two computers were.
joined together by a band of transmission fibres to allow
them to communicate with each other, to sort through a