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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Our brains don't work like computers huh

[Chiisu]

I could've told you that. Who approves these stories anyways

/mod as troll, i don't care, Slashdot quality has been going way down lately

Re:MOD PARENT DOWN

[Doc Ruby]

Anonymous stupid Coward, your stupidity isn't as contagious as you'd like. As you somehow noticed, "DSP" is a metaphor. Related to a "simile", such as "brains work like computers". Stop your yapping about sampling theory - it's totally irrelevant. There's no grid, the waves of neural activiy aren't square, thresholds aren't precise or even stable. Your feeble attempt at metaphor is the exact kind of bad model that my post attempts to discard. But of course, you're too stupid to get my post at all, trying to cop its credit with your cheap, wrong replacement by demands for mod'ing. Just because you don't understand it, don't go spoiling the fun for people with working brains.

It is you who has "trap" problems: you're trapped in your conceit that all is digital, when that's a silly beginner's fantasy. Although your faulty reasoning could be the product of a postbot, running on a cheap, yet cunning array of actual DSPs, connected to the Internet. In which case, HALT.