Your brain is not a computer. It contains no data, it performs no calculations. That's simply not how brains work.
It is human nature to compare the working of the brain to the most advanced technology of the time. Back in the Bronze Age, that was weaving, ceramics, and distillation. Thus, humans were made from clay and animated by the spirit/breath of God. The fact that the visible vapors coming off of distilled spirits are flammable is where the imagery of the soul as an eternal flame comes from. Think Pe
It's not a Turing machine, but I'd urge you to study any of the good papers on how neurons work that compare them to individual computational elements. I've already cited this one:
Well, for starters, both the authors listed on that paper died in 1969. And the paper itself was published in 1943. So, not the most up-to-date research. That paper is famously wrong about the fundamental functioning of neurons.
Can you cite a single fundamental error? It is, indeed, nearly 70 years old. Microscopes and electronics have improved since then, so there was certainly room for refinement. But the ideas of small feedback loops interacting to create quite sophisticated sensory or processing systems seems well established.
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Your brain is not a computer. It contains no data, it performs no calculations. That's simply not how brains work.
It is human nature to compare the working of the brain to the most advanced technology of the time. Back in the Bronze Age, that was weaving, ceramics, and distillation. Thus, humans were made from clay and animated by the spirit/breath of God. The fact that the visible vapors coming off of distilled spirits are flammable is where the imagery of the soul as an eternal flame comes from. Think Pe
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It's not a Turing machine, but I'd urge you to study any of the good papers on how neurons work that compare them to individual computational elements. I've already cited this one:
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~./epxi... [cmu.edu]
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Can you cite a single fundamental error? It is, indeed, nearly 70 years old. Microscopes and electronics have improved since then, so there was certainly room for refinement. But the ideas of small feedback loops interacting to create quite sophisticated sensory or processing systems seems well established.
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Correcting myself, the paper was nearly 80 years ago.