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The 100-step constraint

Alogrithms modelling cognitive processes must meet the 100-step constraint for performing complex tasks imposed by the brain's timescale. Classical sequential algorithms, which run in millions of time-steps now, seem unlikely to meet the constraint.

Jerome Feldman (1985).

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