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We don't actually know how much the neurons in a given brain pay attention to each other. The part of me that learnt to ride a bicycle probably just sits there
by tooltower 6y ago
We don't actually know how much the neurons in a given brain pay attention to each other. The part of me that learnt to ride a bicycle probably just sits there idle while I type this comment here. Logically, they might as well have been partitioned. Your example of switching between tasks is another great example of how parts of our brain don't really need high-availability.
In fact, many psychological studies from the last century contest this idea of consciousness requiring either consistency or high-availability.
- sudosysgen 6y agoEven when you switch tasks you still use most of your brain. You never really turn off any part of your brain, they're pretty much all always active, just at different levels. This seems consistent with high-availability.
- tooltower 6y agoSwitching off is not the only way for something to be unavailable, at least in the context of the CAP theorem. When a web server is unavailable, it is often because of connectivity problems rather than the server being switched off. In the original example, the neighbors and parents don't turn off either when they are out of sight. They are still part of the collective society, just harder for a specific person to reach.