Ask HN: Do you feel like you “think like a computer?”

Re:Ask HN: Do you feel like you “think like a computer?” by cac1 on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @12:19AM (#25830263)

Sometimes the way a computer works is a useful model for thinking about your thoughts, but you don't actually think that way. If you believe that you actually do, it can be self-fulfilling, limiting, and even deny your humanity.

You are not a computer, not even close. Unfortunately, we are often temped to think we are. It's a cause of the social disfunction techies are known for. Don't be so self-limiting. To think we are like a computer can be useful, but it can be a crutch.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you feel like you “think like a computer?” by ironmagma on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @02:52PM (#25851103)

It’s fairly close to say you are a computer, or at least a cluster. Rather, we are a wet-ware, fault tolerant computer. We have some randomness and unpredictability of course, and these are a function of how fragile and dense the system is.

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