physorg.com— A region of the human brain that scientists believe is critical to human intellectual abilities surprisingly functions much like a digital computer, according to psychology Professor Randall O'Reilly.
Oct 5, 2006View in Crawl 4
how else are brains sposed to work? they DO work like computers! Theres only negative and positive, good and bad, big and small in our universe. Everything more complex is built up from a mixture between the two!
That's already happening...whenever you can't get that jingle out of your head, oryou react to suggestions from a hypnotic trance, orgetting the news becomes a bit of an obsession, oryou jump on the bandwagon with a bunch of lemmings, orthe current fashion trend is just to die for....Any questions? (er, mebe also cliches %-)
Closed AccountOct 6, 2006
how else are brains sposed to work? they DO work like computers! Theres only negative and positive, good and bad, big and small in our universe. Everything more complex is built up from a mixture between the two!
rkenwardOct 6, 2006
this may seem lame but i think the title is wrong, i would say"computers function like some parts of the brain"which came first afterall?
geeshockOct 6, 2006
I begin to wonder the possibilities of "hacking" another human. Scary.
hiscityOct 6, 2006
That's already happening...whenever you can't get that jingle out of your head, oryou react to suggestions from a hypnotic trance, orgetting the news becomes a bit of an obsession, oryou jump on the bandwagon with a bunch of lemmings, orthe current fashion trend is just to die for....Any questions? (er, mebe also cliches %-)
parlamgeOct 6, 2006
They've already been working on this for more than a year in Europe using an IBM Blue Gene supercomputer. See<a class="user" href="http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_development/previous_issues/articles/2006_10_06/leading_the_blue_brain_project/(parent)/68">http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_development/previous_issues/articles/2006_10_06/leading_the_blue_brain_project/(parent)/68</a>so two decades is not really that far off. Whether it will work is another question. Our brains use the energy equivalent of a 100 watt lightbulb. The IBM?
Closed AccountOct 7, 2006
This compubitch hijacked my brain and all I wanted to do is hook up my ethernet so I could upload some some open sauce inside her network.
essteeOct 7, 2006
Very interesting... I never thought of that before.