Our Brains Don't Work Like Computers 737
Roland Piquepaille writes "We're using computers for so long now that I guess that many of you think that our brains are working like clusters of computers. Like them, we can do several things 'simultaneously' with our 'processors.' But each of these processors, in our brain or in a cluster of computers, is supposed to act sequentially. Not so fast! According to a new study from Cornell University, this is not true, and our mental processing is continuous. By tracking mouse movements of students working with their computers, the researchers found that our learning process was similar to other biological organisms: we're not learning through a series of 0's and 1's. Instead, our brain is cascading through shades of grey."
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How will this study affect your next thought? Go here [primidi.com] to discuss it further.
There, that feels more complete.
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Come on, it's not like this is neuroscience... Oh.
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Next week's research topic: Do farts stink?
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Our Brains Don't Work, Like Computers
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1.) The GPS coordinates of each key on my keyboard.
2.) The streaming audio of my name and all of my friends and families name.
3.) The bio-mechanical force sequences for the hundreds of muscles used in picking up a glass every morning.
Beer will no longer render my circuits useless!
We are borg... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Computers can process "shades of gray" (Score:3, Funny)
I hope not... (Score:4, Funny)
Are younger people that dumb nowadays?
I hope not, because if they are, I must finally be old.
Re: No, I didn't think that (Score:3, Funny)
> I thought that part of the difficulty in reproducing a mechanical brain was preciously it's shades of grey.
It's even made of grey matter.
Tomorrow on the "Painfully Obvious" (Score:5, Funny)
Sure hope my taxes don't pay for that "research".
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And given the people I deal with as customers in tech support, this is not an improvement. Quite the opposite really.
"I don't know what the IP address is Dave and I don't care. I just want you to make me work or I'll e-mail your supervisor with a nasty complaint."
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--Max
Grey? More like pastel colors (Score:2, Funny)
I thought that part of the difficulty in reproducing a mechanical brain was preciously it's shades of grey.
What, if anything, do shades of grey have to do with Precious Moments [declarks.com]?
Re:Tomorrow on the "Painfully Obvious" (Score:5, Funny)
By 2015... (Score:3, Funny)
of course, it will be as large as a four storey building, take all the power of Niagara falls to run it, and all of the water of Niagara falls to cool it.
Re:Fascinating (Score:3, Funny)
Hehe. I always thought it was more like this:
"Ooo! There's a Roland article! If I bitch about him, I'll be modded as insightful, just like the 300 other times it happened!"
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My brain works like a computer.... (Score:2, Funny)