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If you consider that our brain is a computer, then your argument isn't valid.
by tmsldd 9y ago
If you consider that our brain is a computer, then your argument isn't valid.
- vecter 9y agoPlease expand
- tmsldd 9y agoSee Marr's 3-levels hypothesis. If we "run" an algorithm able to find a program to compute arbitrary data, there must to exist that general algorithm. We (just) need to copy it and implement in silicon..
- goatlover 9y agoOur brain isn't a computer. That's the most recent metaphor we've used to try and make sense of the three pound organ in our heads.
- ThomPete 9y agoWe are pattern recognizing feedback loops with memory. How is that not like a computer?
- psyc 9y agoLike is the operative word. Also: https://imgur.com/a/Bg9WH https://imgur.com/a/Bg9WH
- NikolaeVarius 9y agoComputers were literally the name of people who number crunched for a living. Human brains are by definition the original computer
- tmsldd 9y agoCounter Argument: Please answer the question: 1+1=? Congratulations, you are a computer. (And that's probably a very difficult question, considering you had to acquire the concept of symbolism, numbers and relationships)
- chriswarbo 9y agoOur brain is a computer. That fact may or may not offer useful insights on the properties of brains that we care about. Likewise, our brains are engines, converting energy from one form to another, and hence governed by thermodynamics. Again, that fact may or may not be useful for investigating properties of the brain we care about. Our brains are also matter, meat, networks, made of atoms, and squishy. These are all facts, they may or may not be useful.
- tmsldd 9y agoProfound and inspiring! Thanks for your input.
- goatlover 9y agoOr our brain is a telegraph, the world wide web, an orchestra, a theater, a tv, millions of mindless bots, etc. We use metaphors to help understand things we lack a literal explanation for, or the full explanation is complex and ongoing (neuroscience, biology, chemistry).