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Musubi P.

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Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 1:04 pm

Lately I've been interested in learning techniques and some psychology. I've found out that the brain is actually pretty similar to our loved brother computer.

It has a short term memory (RAM), a long term memory (The hard drive). The processor (The unconscious mind, which is responsible for your "thinking") and an operating system- The consci
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The unconscious mind is aproximatelly about 10000 times faster than the conscious mind. It's just like in the computer. The actually work is far faster than the things we see in our desktop.

The only difference I've personally noticed, is that the human has a programmed free will. But I"m sure we'll find out the secret code of mother nature, and create our own free will. Of course we will implement it only to simulators of animals, because a computer with a free will is a dangerous thing.

Can you image that? A human!

We don't even use our full potential, if we would use our full potential and weren't slowed down by that weak flesh nature gave us we could think at least twice as fast as computers.

Ok, back to the brain. We actually have 2 brains. one is the left half responsible for mathematical operations and basically everything the computer can. And there is the right half, where there's creativity free will and all the other stuff that makes us different from the compy.

So basically you cut of the left half and you will get someone who works on auto- count mode all his life. Of course that's only a speculation.

Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 4:00 pm

Actually, in comparison to the human mind, computers are incredibly slow and inefficient. I've noticed the same parallel, but in a completely different light.

Human minds are capable of not only logic and calculations, but also of complex emotions and intuition. No computer can play Go on the level a human can, because the responses are mostly intuitive. Humans are have more memory storage, faster processing, and more accurate conclusions than computers.

Human "programs" are more complex than those of computers. We have hardwired instinct, and a subconcious more complex than our own consious, which is more complex than a computer, anyway.

There's a parallel between computers and humans that you haven't quite hit, though. You can know everything there is to know about computer hardware, and not know the first thing about programming. There's a similar correlation between biology and psychology. We don't really know how we're "programmed."

Computers are interesting analogies for humans, but they aren't superior to us. It's an interesting thought game that leads to some interesting conclusions about the human mind. Beyond that, doesn't it make sense in some basic sense that the closest we've ever come to creating life is basically a model of ourselves that we can use to think for us?

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Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 7:12 am

Phaedrus17

Computers are interesting analogies for humans, but they aren't superior to us.

They are in some ways.

Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 7:13 am

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What's the difference between a computer and a human brain?

Generation of new nonprogrammed ideas and concepts.

Leaving aside the obvious ones like shape, water content, taste..etc..

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Phaedrus17

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Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 6:43 pm

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Phaedrus17

Computers are interesting analogies for humans, but they aren't superior to us.

They are in some ways.

Raw calculations are about it. I mean, I can't compute 666516 * 9181237 * 2634352 in a few seconds.

But a computer can't argue philosophy.

But a computer cannot feel, cannot understand, and cannot do calculations that are impossible for humans, minus the constraint of time. After all, a human must program a computer, so the limitations of humans are inherent in the limitations of computers, except that computers are more limited than humans are. They're just faster as pure logic, that's all.

Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 6:38 pm

About our minds not being at our full potential. I don't think mother nature restricts us, but rather, human kind as a majority tries to go against mother nature and therefore confines themselves to only use that certain percentage of the brain.

I believe that there was a study somewhere in the past where ordinary people were tested against people who believed they were psychic and had psychic abilities.

The test concluded that the majority of people who said they were psychic used a greater percentage of their mind than the majority of ordinary people.

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Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 2:07 pm

I've heard about that study too.

And building on what others have said, computers can't feel compassion or regrets, so they can't consider the consequences of any "action" that it takes. If they advanced so far as to combine with robotics and make a "living computer" of sorts, it could only act based on aquired hard data without being able to process the psychological aspects of a descison.

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