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Re:The brain is not a computer by RobertoG on Thursday May 19, 2016 @09:50AM (#11730137)
Maybe we don't know how human brains actually do work (in my opinion we do, but for the sake of the discussion..) but we know what they do: brains compute.

To use computers as a simile is not so strange.

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Re:The brain is not a computer by tremon on Thursday May 19, 2016 @11:24AM (#11730909)
Brains associate. Compute is too narrow a definition in my opinion.

However, what we still lack completely is any kind of model for autonomy, i.e. how the brain decides what to "compute".

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