Malachi
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Message 19 of 32 (5771)
02-28-2002 3:52 AM
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Reply to: Message 18 by toff 02-22-2002 4:24 AM
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Human thought is not algorithmic in the sense of how computers are. Computer processors solve one problem at a time in order. They only get things done by solving those simple problems very quickly. The human brain is a collection of millions of tiny processors that operate algorithmically on the individual level(nerve cells). It is the interaction between these millions of individual processors that allows for what we percieve as human thought. Some experimental work is being done to create computers with many small, simple processors working together instead of one super fast processor that most of modern computers use. This would be much more similar to the way that the human brain functions than the traditional single processor algorithmic way that computers of today function.
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