"We copy you, Apollo 55. Our computers use latest AMD 64-bit 3 gigacycle chips. These are accurate to one part in sixteen million-million-million. All supercomputers of world have been linked up by Internet, and millions of volunteers are donating spare cycles on their machine to help. The computing capacity we have is mind-blowing. We know at all times where you are to within a millionth of an inch. If you get into any trouble, just get in touch and we will talk you home".

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"Hello Apollo 55, do you copy"?

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"Hello Apollo 55, do you copy"?

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"Hello Apollo 55, do you copy"?

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Was it only olfactory system, which used combinatorial coding? The mind received kaleidoscopic combinations of millions of sensations. Could instant combinatorial recognition extended beyond olfactory system? Could it be essence of neural system? A new book, The Intuitive Algorithm, suggested just this. The mind used combinatorial coding and pattern recognition to propel recognition through many neural regions like a lightning streak. The mind saw, recognized, interpreted and acted. Data was reported to move from input to output in a bare 20 milliseconds. In blink of eye. Myriad processes converted light, sound, touch and smell instantly into your nerve impulses. Special regions recognized those combinations as objects and events. The limbic system, another region, interpreted those events to generate emotions. A fourth region responded to those emotions with actions. The mind perceived, identified, evaluated and acted. Pattern recognition and combinatorial coding got you off hot stove in a fraction of a second.