Sunday, March 11, 2007

Computer and the Brain- Genius and Insane

We are nothing more and nothing less than the information stored in our brain and our brain itself. Our knowledge is data run through a processor chip. Your brain is that processor. Some people have higher grade processors than others. Some will last longer; others will degrade slower. But every brain does the same job. Your genes are the rules by which your processor runs. Your emotions give priority to certain tendancies and presidence to certain reactions. Each and every person is configured differently, thus each and every person is different, but each and every one is an important part of the greaterverse.

The greaterverse is not real. It is a concept solely devised to group together like actions. It is the compilation of all action, interaction and the causes and results of said actions and interactions. It is the "1's" and "0's" of the program of our lives as it runs through our brain. But we must remember not to confuse our brain with a computer, for they, though they preform many of the same actions, do not maintain data in the same fashion. Indeed, the brain can sometimes work against its host based on the rules of its operation and too can a computer, both because we've misplaced the owner's manual.

The brain stores information based on necessity or emotional provocation. You won't remember something that is truly unremarkable and you don't have to or forget to have to. Computers store information that the host deems important, those that have necessity or emotional value.

We must see that the brain fails us more often than the computer. Why? Because our brains are far more complex than a computer. They work off different rules. If you want to remember something, there is no save button for guarenteed success.

The computer and the brain are alike in different ways as well. If I save a file on my computer it is quite possible for someone to change its contents before I view it again. Maybe I have a dozen files, or 140, or a thousand. How can we be sure that the file that we left is the same as the file that we reopen at a later time? Likewise, how can we be sure that a memory, taken and saved at a particular time, won't be altered by our actions and interactions before we open it again? It's impossible to keep track.

Then we come to the matter of what to believe and too we have a similiarity. We cannot know what to believe. Our minds and computers alike play us for fools. What is reality? Reality is what we think it is presently. It is ever changing and ever elusive. It is ever different to each of us. What is truth but what we make it? It is just that and nothing more. Truth is just information whose story is told through the lens of reality, which is ever fluid. So then I pose one final query: What difference does it make to you?

1 comment:

FlyFreeForever said...

In your mind.