(April 21, 2015 at 10:20 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: If we are not ones and zeros in a bio-computer, what do you think we are? What's special about a brain that sets it apart from a computer aside from complexity?
I certainly don't think our thoughts are ones and zeros. Neural architecture seems to indicate a much more complex web in any brain activity -- which yes, is complexity. Given the fact that each neuron can receive information from dozens of other neurons, each receiving information from dozens of other neurons -- and given that the brain has a quality known as plasticity, whereby changing the way one thinks can quite literally change the circuitry of the brain -- the decision process in a human strikes me more as a plenary vote of neurons, each with its own tasking and area of concern, rather than a straightforward set of instructions that simply possesses an unusually high number of if/then subroutines, to be run down in discrete digital packets.
