Friday, May 27, 2016

Your brain is not a computer

Our model of the brain as a computer may be fundamentally flawed:

https://aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-information-and-it-is-not-a-computer

However, weather patterns follow dynamic rules that aren't like how computers think, yet we can model them quite well. So why wouldn't it be possible to model how brains work on computers, even if brains don't work like computers?

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