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From: sarge@metapsy.UUCP (Sarge Gerbode)
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Subject: Re: The Bandwidth of the Brain
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Date: 24 Dec 90 18:22:53 GMT
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In article <10340@darkstar.ucsc.edu>, foetus@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (71030000) writes:

>The brain is not a computer.  It is, however, the most complex and
>little understood thing that so many (but not all :-)) people have in 
>common.

>Back in the days when a telephone switchboard ...  was the most
>complicated, technologically advanced task machine, people compared
>that to a brain.

To me, the brain is more like a high-quality *terminal*.  It may have
on-board cpu chips and memory, but it is not the cpu for the entire
system; nor is it the *operator* of the system.  *I* am.
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