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What kind of computer is the brain?
Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2015 8:23 am
by Philosophy Explorer
That's the question this article poses. The answer will eventually come from study and research. For now we can only speculate:
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/06/28/op ... ?referrer=
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Re: What kind of computer is the brain?
Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2015 8:04 pm
by van Keister
The brain is no computer! When computers have intuition, intelligence, aesthetic experience, passion, creativity, (need I go on?) then I'll listen to you arguments....
Re: What kind of computer is the brain?
Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2015 9:40 am
by Arising_uk
Computationally it's a massively parallel neural-net or a set of interacting massively parallel neural-nets.
Re: What kind of computer is the brain?
Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2015 11:31 am
by Hobbes' Choice
What kind of computer is the brain?
A natural organic evolved one.
There is nothing to compare to an artifactual computer, unless you treat them both like black boxes and compare outputs. This reveals that that are fundamentally different, regardless of the material structures, as well as different because of their material structures.
Re: What kind of computer is the brain?
Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2015 10:15 pm
by blu
I think that article dismisses too casually the problem of consciousness. It is generally supposed that consciousness arises from the brain, or at least from some physical system in the body, but nobody has come close to demonstrating the mechanism by which that happens. Until that is explained, any comparison of the brain with computers is limited to the sort of behaviour which would occur in a philosophical zombie.