Our Brains Don't Work Like Computers

Roland Piquepaille writes "We're using computers for so long now that I guess that many of you think that our brains are working like clusters of computers. Like them, we can do several things 'simultaneously' with our 'processors.' But each of these processors, in our brain or in a cluster of computers, is supposed to act sequentially. Not so fast! According to a new study from Cornell University, this is not true, and our mental processing is continuous. By tracking mouse movements of students working with their computers, the researchers found that our learning process was similar to other biological organisms: we're not learning through a series of 0's and 1's. Instead, our brain is cascading through shades of grey."

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No, I didn't think that

[Gregg Alan]

I didn't think our brains were binary. I thought that part of the difficulty in reproducing a mechanical brain was preciously it's shades of grey.

Granted, I'm somewhere over 30. Are younger people that dumb nowadays?

Re:Computers can process "shades of gray"

[FLAGGR]

ugh. That floating point number is still made up of individual bits, and in the case of 32bit x86, a double is 64bits, and each of those bits is still a binary 1 or 0. Jeez. You know it is possible to have decimals with fixed point arithmatic too? The only difference is you have to shift the decimal place yourself (and er well sign changes are different, but we'll forget that stuff for now) so I have no idea what point your trying to make. A bit is either one or zero, no matter what. Even if that bit happens to be part of a floating point number. Jeez.

Wrong.

[autopr0n]

Sorry, neurons are not at all like DSPs. They are like transistors. Firing or not firing based on the electrical charge between the inside and outside of the cell. Please, try to learn something about a topic before you speak about it. Spouting off about things you know nothing about is like jerking off in someone else's slurpy. It may be enjoyable, but if everyone does it the end result is that no one can really enjoy their slurpy unless they are a Cum junky.

You're not a cum junky, are you? No? then pleaze shut up.