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STAT ww Approved For Release i aannenenes heneinineeeenaens DST-1810S-387-75 September 1975 billion, or seven trillion semiconductor elements in operation, and another seven trillion in reserve. The brain has about 14 billion nerve cells. If only 10 billion are able to receive information at any one time, and the transmission capacity of a nerve fiber is 14 bits per second, then this means that the brain is able to receive 140 billion bits of information per second. Thus the memory capacity of the brain seems to be a million times greater than that of current computers. For ordinary perception and deliberation, 14 to 16 bits/second are adequate. But for more com- plicated perception and deliberation, such as the solution of a mathemati- cal problem, etc., about 20 bits per second are needed. The brain's great reserve bit capacity may indicate that unconsciously and subliminally, man may be perceiving far more information than what has been assumed previously. Experiments with known telegnostics seem to confirm this, since they appar- ently process and evaluate a huge quantity of information within an un- imaginably short time. (U) Czech theoretical cyberneticians are proposing the construction of computers that will "create" and possess at least a degree of intuition. However, the Czechs admit that this concept is somewhat premature, because they do not yet understand these processes in man and are unable to describe them adequately. Parapsychology may eventually provide much essential knowledge about these processes and thereby help cybernetics in solving the problem of teaching computers to create. The point is not merely to build more-perfect computers, but to design computers with qualitatively new functions. Work is now underway on a fourth generation of computers, and a fifth generation is being planned. The Czechs believe that para- psychology is already capable of offering cybernetics fruitful models. In the opinion of some cyberneticians, the present prostheses that replace missing parts of the body are foreign bodies within the organism, regardless of how perfect they may be. Once the technology of molecular circuits is mastered it will be possible to integrate perfectly a prosthesis and the central nervous system's information system. From there it will be only a short step to direct man-machine communication. Understanding of molecular circuits will also clarify the mechanisms of extrasensory communication between people. (U) The Soviet-Czech team approach to parapsychology research, not widely used as yet in the West, will advance them into direct man-machine com- munication, creative computers, and eventually into cyborgs, i.e., human inductors coupled with physical psychotronic instrumentation. (U) Frantisek Kahuda of Charles University, Prague, has expanded on the original "neutrino" theory proposed in 1966 by Ye. Parnov of the Soviet Union. Kahuda and other Czech researchers have demonstrated that space (mental horizon) and time (mental time) in the world of mental processes have characteristic properties that should be in accord with the properties 25 Approved For Release sdronare-eocseohe osereanasootana STAT