The topic is about how brains are different from computers. Computers are normally recognized as “electronic brains,” and newspaper articles as well as science fiction, talk of “intelligent machines” that take over from humans. These statements are misleading. I will observe the differences between brains and computers by examining the difference according to various researchers. For now, brains are said to different from computers –but there is a chance for us to learn from studies that examine the way that brains process information, this will be observed in the study. Computers do not have the ability to think the same way as humans do—and yet, most aspects of thoughts are becoming computable.
According to cybernetic perception, we are able to learn more about who we are and also about animals and machines and societies, by simply taking a look at the general patterns of processing information, which includes control and communication patterns. Thus, we have the ability to understand the way that human brains work in case we think about how we have to program a computer to make sure it conducts some of the tasks that should be carried out by the brain. However, this does not deny the differences.
In this topic I will talk about the brain structure. I will look at how different the brain structure is from the structure of a computer. The fact that we are able to live in such rich worlds, with the actions we take guided not by immediate commands but rather by the interaction of hopes and dreams and fears and emotions as well as inspirations, is a clear illustration of just how different brains are from any computer yet built.
In addition I will focus on principal differences between computers and the brain. For instance, the fact is that the current computers undertake serial computations (they execute a single instruction at a time) while brains operate in parallel (every part of the brain ‘computes’ at the same time) (Von Neumann and Ray 43). The trend during the next four decades will be improved by focusing towards more brain-like computers.
Works Cited
Von Neumann, John, and Ray Kurzweil. The computer and the brain. Yale University Press, 2012.
