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Your brain "is" indeed a computer in the same way that your eye "is" jelly. Sure it computes, but in case you've forgotten there is a whole lot of other stuff
by sideshowb 10y ago
Your brain "is" indeed a computer in the same way that your eye "is" jelly.
Sure it computes, but in case you've forgotten there is a whole lot of other stuff going on as well and we don't have the first clue how.
- khedoros 10y agoThe brain is a computer, a chemical regulator, and a number of other things. Those are functional descriptions. The eye is an optical sensor, built in part on a jelly and protein substrate, just like the rest of our bodies. Put another way, the eye is composed of jelly (among other things), but the brain isn't composed of a computer (among other things). It's a difference between function and composition.