Brains are like computers . . . not
We speak of the brain’s processing speed, its storage capacity, its parallel circuits, inputs and outputs. The metaphor fails at pretty much every level:
1. The brain doesn’t have a set memory capacity that is waiting to be filled up
2. It doesn’t perform computations in the way a computer does
3. Basic visual perception isn’t a passive receiving of inputs – we actively interpret, anticipate and pay attention to different elements of the visual world.
Elephants never forget by Judy
“There’s a long history of likening the brain to whatever technology is the most advanced, impressive and vaguely mysterious. Descartes compared the brain to a hydraulic machine. Freud likened emotions to pressure building up in a steam engine. The brain later resembled a telephone switchboard and then an electrical circuit before evolving into a computer; lately it’s turning into a Web browser or the Internet. These metaphors linger in clichés: emotions put the brain “under pressure” and some behaviors are thought to be “hard-wired.”
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/top-ten-myths-about-the-brain-178357288/#KSSZgGZ7vPRdJWWq.99
March 12-18, 2018 is Brain Awareness Week (BAW) is a nationwide effort organized by the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives and the Society for Neuroscience to promote the public and personal benefits of brain research.
http://www.dana.org/BAW/
Luckily our brain is far superior to a computer ……so far. I think it will remain so unless we
are getting so lazy mentally that we do no longer engage our brain, think, create.
Computers to me are so far a great and amazing tools but still built by human brains.
Thank you for this posting
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Miriam,
Hoping our luck holds. Even Stephen Hawkings was fearful of artificial intelligence taking over!! But we still build the computers, as you say.
Peggy
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Delphini,
The people who create the technology will always have smarter brains than the technology . . . as far as the rest of us go only time will tell.
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