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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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  • Anonymous
    9 years ago
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    > 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.

  • Nelson
    Lv 7
    9 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!!!!

  • eli
    Lv 7
    9 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

  • 9 years ago

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