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The point of this article is the argument that the metaphor that human brains work just like computers is leading people astray in figuring out how human brains
by panglott 10y ago
The point of this article is the argument that the metaphor that human brains work just like computers is leading people astray in figuring out how human brains actually do work.
- RobertoG 10y agoMaybe we don't know how human brains actually do work (in my opinion we do, but for the sake of the discussion..) but we know what they do: brains compute. To use computers as a simile is not so strange.
- tremon 10y agoBrains associate. Compute is too narrow a definition in my opinion. However, what we still lack completely is any kind of model for autonomy, i.e. how the brain decides what to "compute".
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- SerLava 10y agoHe really didn't show where people are struggling due to that supposed handicap. He also didn't show why brains aren't literally performing the task of computing. I mean shit, if I judge the distance between two points, how can it not be said that I have collected sensory data and computed the result? All of his examples were pedantic or irrelevant.
- iofj 10y agoWhen somebody says humans don't compute, I like this picture : http://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/posts/computer_wide.jpeg http://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/posts/computer_w... Let's call it "ipython before computers", or "excel before computers" if you must.
- eli_gottlieb 10y ago>leading people astray in figuring out how human brains actually do work. In order to make any point remotely like this, he'd have to go talk to some actual neuroscientists, which he very plainly didn't.