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Is your brain a computer?

bobbonew: Really is it? Technically I think its just a computer but instead of circuit and hard drives there are neurons and chemicals transferring and storing information. What do you guys think?

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3 years ago

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It is more than a computer. Your brain has wayyyy more desicions than ones and zeros =P.

  • god
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You can write programs and sub-routines into it, but if you were trying to compare it to a computer in existence, you couldn't.

I think there are a lot of similarities though, so maybe in the future computers will change to behave more like brains, but truthfully, I hope not, AI apocalypse exists within my paranoid thoughts.

  • Dio
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The difference between our brain and a computer is the simple fact that no brain has ever said, "hard drive full". We have the potential to unlimited learning. We will never run out of space in our brain.

 

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