 einbar says: "These differences may be crucial to understanding the mechanisms of neural information processing, and ultimately for the creation of artificial intelligence. Below, I review the most important of these differences (and the consequences to cognitive psychology of failing to recognize them)". Bonus Difference: The brain is much, much bigger than any [current] computerAccurate biological models of the brain would have to include some 225,000,000,000,000,000 (225 million billion) interactions between cell types, neurotransmitters, neuromodulators, axonal branches and dendritic spines, and that doesn't include the influences of dendritic geometry, or the approximately 1 trillion glial cells which may or may not be important for neural information processing. Because the brain is nonlinear, and because it is so much larger than all current computers, it seems likely that it functions in a completely different fashion. (See here for more on this.) The brain-computer me... Oh sacred metaphors! another major difference which has been clipped elsewhere on Clipmarks is that computers don't have emotion which some scientists think is essential for higher thinking. Computers don't have genitals. computers have only a limited version of "learning" (one used to say they didn't "learn" at all). this may be related to the lack of emotions, but I think it is something else; humans have free will and creativity. computers do not have free will, their decisions are determined by algorithms and input. one person may learn a completely different (and wholly unexpected and even unpredictable) thing from a given set of experience from what another person does, but in such a situation "learning" computers will still only learn a limited and anticipatable range of responses, depending on how they have been programmed. |
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