Brain and computer?
By kevinll
@kevinll (967)
China
August 18, 2009 9:33pm CST
The difference between a brain and a computer can be expressed in a single word:complexity.
The large mammalian brain is the most complicated thing, for its size, known to us. The human brain weighs three pounds, but in that three pounds are ten billion neurons and a hundred billion smaller cells.These many billions of cells are interconnected in a vastly complicated network that we can't begin to unravel as yet.
Even the most complicated computer man has yet built can't compare in intricacy with the brain. Computer switches and components number in the thousands rather than in the billions. What's more, the computer switch is just an on-off device, whereas the brain cell is itself possessed of a trmendously complex structure.
Nowadays people like deal with anything through computer. I often use it to resolve problem. Meanwhile I like to think it by myself. The handwriting is full of emotion. What do you think about it?
1 response
@AJLaws (67)
• Australia
19 Aug 09
I think the biggest difference between the two is the complexity of how they work.
A computer is actually a very simple and basic function (although it does not seem that way) but the way a computer does things is very simple. However the human brain however is capable of doing multiple tasks (well some of them anyways... ha!).
This is the biggest difference, the computer can only do 1 thing at a time, but does it so damn quickly, it appears it can do multiple things at the same time, however it only can do 1 thing at a time. (well this is what i was once told and informed about so please feel free to correct me if i'm completely wrong or just confused), as the human brain is capable of working through a number of things at the same time.
