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Your brain is continuously performing an astonishing amount of calculations, you just don't realize it.
by leptons 2y ago
Your brain is continuously performing an astonishing amount of calculations, you just don't realize it.
- morpheos137 2y agoThe brain does not perform "calculations" in the same way a digital computer does which actually doesn't calculate anything either. Calculating is an act of intention. Computers do not have intention. Rather using a fixed and stored instruction set humans can use the combinatorial networks of computer microcode to generate a certain deterministic result. The flow is one path. Human intention->software->combinatorial machinery->result. One input one output. In contrast the brain takes multiple inputs and transforms them into controlled action in the real world in the service of goals. This action manifests as multiple complex outputs. The single neuron is a complicated analog computer. The brain is a functional network of 100 billion neurons or whatever the number is.
- titanomachy 2y agoThis is also true of my cat
- leptons 2y agoTrue for anything with a brain, even a mosquito although a bit less astonishing.