Is A Brain A Computer?

Is A Brain A Computer?

Is A Brain A Computer?

It's interesting to note that computers were designed to instantaneously complete tasks that we're lousy at. Humans are dummies when it comes to performing long multiplication problems and can barely be relied on to remember the name of someone they just met, let alone a whole address book or randomly memorize zip codes from cities around the world. On the other hand, we've never succeeded in getting computers to have some fun and tell a good joke (on their own), or to compose a simple song on the guitar that is genuinely pleasant. We have tried mind you, many times, but the results haven't been too pretty. So just superficially speaking there are some things that computers can do exceedingly well that our brains could never do, and it's likewise obvious that that computers have the creativity and emotions of, well, a metal box.

But what's going on physically? Are computers at all like brains? Surprisingly, in some ways, that answer is a resounding yes. At the most basic level, both computers and brains rely upon the firing of electrical impulses to make them run. In fact, while up till now computer chips employ a sort of grid of transistors to perform their binary calculations; the human brain as we all know sends its messages by firing electrical impulses between synapses in its neurons. No wonder the brain uses more calories than any other organ in the body! And bio-tech engineers are now working on chips to emulate the way the brain works- but not to make a more human-like computer- to develop new computer chip implants for the brain!

I personally would have to conclude (and feel free to differ) that the brain is much more than the sum of its parts, while the computer is not in the slightest. It is consciousness that makes us human, and what role exactly the brain plays in that metaphysical mystery is not known. I do not believe on the other hand that computers have any sort of consciousness whatsoever. The human is a tool making creature and the computer is the greatest tool he has ever made. That, I believe anyway, is as far as it goes.

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