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What's the difference between a brain and a computer?
Computers work in binary and with a series of different switch connections using the flow of electrons in metals.
Do brains do something similar but instead use Neurons? If not, how?
If both a computer processor (note, not the entire system) and a brain were the same size and mass, which would have the most processing power and which would be more energy efficient?
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- Anonymous9 years agoFavorite Answer
> What's the difference between a brain and a computer?
One is compartmentalized into cells and the other is compartmentalized into "cores."
> Do brains do something similar but instead use Neurons?
Yes, but it's not binary. Each neuron may have many inputs.
> If both a computer processor (note, not the entire system) and a brain were the same size and mass, which would have the most processing power and which would be more energy efficient?
Brain and brain. Your brain comprises a huge number of slow components. It is massively parallel.
- NelsonLv 79 years ago
A computer is a very small, brain-like machine which has been invented by a master computer, the human brain.
We have a demonstration of binary logic in the Holy Bible, where God and His Son both said, "I am Alpha and Omega". Surely this is a logic statement, I an 1 and Big 0= "I am 1 and Big Zero= I am BINARY LOGIC!!!!
- eliLv 79 years ago
computers can't have intuition
can't have implicit memories
can't have emotion
they will never be able to duplicate the processes of neurons
they can exhaust all possible answers to come up with the best answer
and they can do it in a matter of seconds
the brain could never do that
instead, we scan our memories and use heuristics
in other words, mental short cuts
we can often do pretty well at that
we can usually come up with a sufficient answer at a good percentage
but it's based on past experiences that accumulate over the lifespan
in this way we depend on implicit memory
and most often couldn't say exactly why we chose that answer