Face It, Your Brain Is a Computer - The New York Times - 0 views
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all the standard arguments about why the brain might not be a computer are pretty weak.
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Take the argument that “brains are parallel, but computers are serial.” Critics are right to note that virtually every time a human does anything, many different parts of the brain are engaged; that’s parallel, not serial.
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the trend over time in the hardware business has been to make computers more and more parallel, using new approaches like multicore processors and graphics processing units.
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