Computers Vrs Humans

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Humans make computers, yet computers are sometimes thought to be superior to humans. Is there any truth to this point? Maybe, I am going to provide information that both are different and the same in many ways, but that one in fact, may be seen as being better then the other. Computers make advancements every day, because people continue looking for ways to make them run better and more efficient. Humans on the other hand do not advance as rapidly, because they can only do what they are raised or taught to do. They are only as advanced as their education or can only advance as much as their brain and other organs will allow them. Computers are made by humans so which is smarter or better? This conflict is an opinionated one but maybe proven by the facts of this paper, by showing differences and similarities in the machines and the humans that make them.


A paper from Science and Spirit called “Brains, Computers and Persons” discusses how “the brain is a computer”, meaning in the sense of today’s electronic machines. However in fact the brain is a computer, which is very different, then any computer man has yet succeeded to build. Also it states that the job of computer science is not only to build better technology, but also to create a theory, which encompasses the brain’s very different adaptive, distributed, multi-level computations. The brain has hundreds of regions, each region with millions of cells, each cell with tens of thousands of connections, each connection involving subtle neurochemical processes. Which gives a great deal of room for processes shaped through evolution that will continue to mystify humans for decades to come. So in fact the article states that maybe instead of reducing the human brain to the limits of the current machine, maybe instead see the notion of machines growing immensely over the coming decades as we better understand h...