The Human Brain
Posted 01-16-09 at 12:31 PM by Bonz™
Well I got a phone call from my Ex today. It's been a year and a half and she's still heartbroken over me. Being a guy, naturally I've pushed it to the side and I do not care. Time has passed, life has been lived... time to move on of course. Which got me into the thought of the human brain.
I like to think in analogies when I compare stuff. I do this a lot.
How does the human brain work? How does it store the information? The only logical analogy I can think of is RAM. The brain is like a giant single core CPU, with like... 18 Petabytes of RAM. (Could be more or less, figure of speech). We retain information with electrical charges. And I say RAM instead of Hard Drive because... When RAM is powered off... all the information is lost. Similar to the brain. All of our lives, our brain is powered on. When you die, the electricity is turned off and all your infinite amounts of knowledge is lost. It seems like such a waste. Countless amounts of data thrown out the window every day that could be benefiting someone. A stroke could simulate a crash, or BSOD. Where some data is lost
How do we spontaneously think of and generate random data? How do we interpret electrical frequencies in the mind. A computer interpretation can be explained, the mind... not so much.
Thoughts?
I like to think in analogies when I compare stuff. I do this a lot.
How does the human brain work? How does it store the information? The only logical analogy I can think of is RAM. The brain is like a giant single core CPU, with like... 18 Petabytes of RAM. (Could be more or less, figure of speech). We retain information with electrical charges. And I say RAM instead of Hard Drive because... When RAM is powered off... all the information is lost. Similar to the brain. All of our lives, our brain is powered on. When you die, the electricity is turned off and all your infinite amounts of knowledge is lost. It seems like such a waste. Countless amounts of data thrown out the window every day that could be benefiting someone. A stroke could simulate a crash, or BSOD. Where some data is lost
How do we spontaneously think of and generate random data? How do we interpret electrical frequencies in the mind. A computer interpretation can be explained, the mind... not so much.
Thoughts?
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"A computer interpretation can be explained, the mind... not so much."
That is because the analogy comparing the brain and computers does not work.
The way a computer works is simple compared to how a brain does.
To evolve from the nothingness of inorganic materials into a being that has conscious thought, as well as unconscious.
its just too much to comprehend.Posted 01-19-09 at 05:09 PM by noname
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I know that the mind is complex and a computer is simple.
I make analogies to better understand the way something works. I wasn't literally meaning an inorganic material could develop organic qualities.
I was simply referring to the methods in which things work
Btw, nice boobs in the avatar.Posted 01-21-09 at 11:46 PM by Bonz™
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Your brain is vastly more complex than a computer, but not faster at executing simple responses.
If you think about it, neural impulses travel anywhere between 2 - 200 miles per hour. Even at it's top speed it is still 3 million times slower than that of electricity through a wire.
Food for thoughtPosted 02-02-09 at 08:39 PM by mega_option101
